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Love and life behind the purdah / by Cornelia Sorabji ; edited by Chandani Lokugé.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.2.S67 L68 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorabji, Cornelia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu women dz India--Fiction.
- Hindu women dz India.
- India--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- India.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xlii, 142 pages : 1 portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1952) was a pioneer in the tradition of Indian-Parsee women's literature in English. This collection of Sorabji's short stories reflects her fascination with orthodox Hindu women and her frustrated feminist ambitions to liberate them from their enforced or self-willed domesticity.
- Contents:
- Letter from Lord Hobhouse to the author
- The pestilence at noonday
- Love and life
- Love and death
- Urmi, the story of a queen
- Greater love
- Behind the purdah
- Malappa, a study in ashes
- A living sacrifice
- The fire is quenched!, a sketch in Indian ink
- Achthar, the story of a queen
- Pundit-je, a portrait.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- Originally published: London : Freemantle and Co., 1901.
- "Oxford India classic reissue"--Cf. cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-142).
- ISBN:
- 0195650263
- OCLC:
- 52593904
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195650266
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