Things to Leave Behind


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<p>'A personal story of the way that the caste system in India [. . .] imprison[s] the humanity of those within them'-Gloria Steinem</p><p>Kumaon 1856. History has already begun its steady march. Six native women clad in black and scarlet pichauras huddle around Naineetal Lake attempting to cleanse it of ominous influences. These are the days of Upper Mall Road (for Europeans and their horses) and Lower Mall Road ('for dogs servants and other Indians'). Amidst a theatre of British impunity feisty young Tilottama Dutt whose uncle is hung when he protests the reigning order and her daughter Deoki confront change as Indians and as women.</p><p><i>Things to Leave Behind</i> brings alive the romance of the mixed legacy of the British-Indian past. Full of the fascinating backstory of Naineetal and its unwilling entry into Indian history throwing a shining light on the elemental confusion of caste creed and culture illuminated with painstaking detail here is a fascinating historical epic and Namita Gokhale's most ambitious novel yet.</p>
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