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1870s India. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood--shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance--Biren devotes his life to effecting change. Just when his vision for the future begins to look hopeless, he meets Maya, the independent-minded daughter of a local educator,...
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Chai Masala Club romances volume 1
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English
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"Kiran Mathur knows firsthand just how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself-by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne..."--
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"Soundararajan ties discrimination toward the Dalit in South Asia and America to the experiences of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective. This book includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalization"--
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[2021]
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English
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"Get the Summary of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy...
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[2011]
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First U.S. edition.
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English
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The eldest of seven children born low-caste in rural India, Mamta is abused and rejected by a father who can see no reason to "water someone else's garden" until a husband is found for her. Seeking escape in matrimony, Mamta is soon forced to flee her village and the horrors of her arranged marriage to the bustle of a small city, where she struggles to find a precarious state of acceptance and make peace with her past.
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2001.
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Nicholas B. Dirks is Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom and the editor of Colonialism and Culture and In Near Ruins. He has taught at the University of Michigan, the California Institute of Technology, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris.
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common...
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[2022]
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First edition.
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English
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"This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright © 2020. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York, in 2020"--
12) Pyre
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2022.
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First Atlantic Grover paperback edition.
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English
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A man loves a woman and the woman loves him back. But, does the heart understand the barriers or boundaries of caste? The couple love each other and have no issues. But, the society with its old customs and superstitions with no basis, cause people to do the unthinkable.
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"The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary--and yet how typical--her...
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2018.
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Russian
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"Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa moved to North Korea with his when he was family thirteen years old. This is his story of how he survived for 36 years under the brutal totalitarian regime, before he finaly managed to escape to Japan. A shocking portrait of life inside the country, a testament to the dignity and indomitable nature of the human spirit." --
15) Mohenjo daro
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2016.
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Hindi
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The story follows Sarman, a farmer, who travels to the city of Mohenjo Daro and falls in love with a high-status woman, Chaani. But Chaani must wed Munja, son of Mohenjo Daro's ruler, Maham.
16) Sujata
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[2005]
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Hindi
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Story of an untouchable orphan girl who is raised in a rich family and has to go through emotional turmoil because she is not accepted by the upper class.
17) Delhi-6
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[2009]
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Hindi
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Roshan Mehra is living in the United States along with his Muslim mom and Hindu dad. When his ailing grandmother, Annapurna, wants to move back to Delhi to spend her last days, Roshan accompanies her. Upon arrival, they are greeted by Ali Beg who secretly loves Roshan's mom. He also gets to meet the Sharma family. He sees that lower caste Indians are still being shunned despite modern technology and the launching of satellites. When reports of a Kala...
18) Masaan
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[2015]
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Hindi
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Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
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[2006]
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First paperback edition.
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English
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This second volume of the fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, covers his upbringing and early manhood. Unhappy with the injustice of the caste system, the prince leaves his life of luxury to find a way to fight it. He marries and fathers a child, but unable to live in his luxurious palace, he cuts off his hair and departs into the wilderness to become a monk.
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