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Rajmahal

Kamalini Sengupta

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Description:"Kamalini Sengupta's Rajmahal is indeed her Howard's End! But the encompassing achievement of the novel is its penetration of a new stage in our human history: Sengupta's is among the first and unquestionably to me the most revealing description of the life of the post-colonialist and post-colonized living on, somehow together. The colonizers who have lost the sense of what home they came from, and the colonized finding they have become inexorably something like the people from whom they struggled so long to gain their freedom."-Nadine GordimerMarriages, affairs, suicides, duplicitous relations, second chances, murder, madness, and true love-Rajmahal is a beautifully crafted tale of families brought together in an unusual Bengali house over a century of turbulent changes. Within the walls of this stately home, the melting pot of tenants, alive and dead, struggle to come to grips with the social, economic, and intellectual forces working in India as it moves from the British Raj to independence. Their intertwined fortunes and personal battles become a mirror of the struggle for possession of the country's future.Kamalini Sengupta writes for newspapers and magazines in India, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. As the executive director of the Surya Trust, she films documentaries that aim to correct misconceptions about Indian life. Rajmahal is her second novel.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rajmahal. To get started finding Rajmahal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Kamalini Sengupta's Rajmahal is indeed her Howard's End! But the encompassing achievement of the novel is its penetration of a new stage in our human history: Sengupta's is among the first and unquestionably to me the most revealing description of the life of the post-colonialist and post-colonized living on, somehow together. The colonizers who have lost the sense of what home they came from, and the colonized finding they have become inexorably something like the people from whom they struggled so long to gain their freedom."-Nadine GordimerMarriages, affairs, suicides, duplicitous relations, second chances, murder, madness, and true love-Rajmahal is a beautifully crafted tale of families brought together in an unusual Bengali house over a century of turbulent changes. Within the walls of this stately home, the melting pot of tenants, alive and dead, struggle to come to grips with the social, economic, and intellectual forces working in India as it moves from the British Raj to independence. Their intertwined fortunes and personal battles become a mirror of the struggle for possession of the country's future.Kamalini Sengupta writes for newspapers and magazines in India, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. As the executive director of the Surya Trust, she films documentaries that aim to correct misconceptions about Indian life. Rajmahal is her second novel.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rajmahal. To get started finding Rajmahal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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