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Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children.
Sivakami dutifully follows custom, except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband's house to raise her children. There, her servant Muchami, a
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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A volume of short tales about contemporary Indian women caught between tradition and modernity includes the story of a young woman, adopted and raised by an American family, who is entreated by her biological family to prevent the wrongful execution of ayoung widow.
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Harlequin "MIRA"
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
1940's India. During this volatile and transitional time in the country's fight for independence, Layla is astrologically doomed never to marry. Manik's career and arranged marriage were charted for success. But by cleverly manipulating the hand fortune has dealt her, Layla has found love with Manik. Layla's life as a newly married woman takes her away from home and into the jungles of Assam, where the world's finest tea thrives on plantations run...
13) Sharmila's book
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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A Hindu-American woman from Chicago who is tired of love affairs which lead nowhere accepts her mother's offer of an arranged marriage and flies to India to meet the groom. But the heroine, artist Sharmila Sen, is a liberated woman and the novel chronicles her disappointments. By the author of Shiva Dancing.
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Between us volume 2
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English
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"Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, the devoted servant was cruelly fired. The sting of that dismissal was made more painful coming from Sera Dubash, the temperamental employer who had long been Bhima's only confidante. A woman who has endured despair...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
18) Honor: a novel
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other"--
Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story. Reluctantly. Long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena-- a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and...
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