Daughters: A Story of Five Generations (

A chronicle of the lives of five generations of women in the author's family this fascinating story spans over a hundred years in its narrative sweep from the late nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first. It mirrors and critiques the progress of a nation its society and its women seamlessly blending biography with social history. Sundar-ma Bharati Ray's great-grandmother was married into a conservative household at twelve. Self-educated because formal education was out of her r...See More