Six Acres and a Third: The Classic Nineteenth Century Novel About Colonial India

by Fakir Mohan Senapati (Author)

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  2005

  $44.13

  Provides a 'view from below' of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, this title focuses on a small plot of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected by the way this property is sold and resold, as legal arrangements emerge and types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape.