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Keeping corner by Kashmira Sheth · Booklabria

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First published: 2007

Synopsis

In India in the 1940s, twelve-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.

Subjects: History
Family life
Widows
Women's rights
Child marriage
Set in: India
Fiction
Time: British occupation, 1765-1947
Characters: Gandhi Mahatma

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Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2007
Edition: 1st ed.
Pages: 281
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0786838592
ISBN-10: 0786838590

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