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Devrani Jethani Ki Kahani or A Tale of Two Sisters in Law

by Smita Gandotra
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789391144562
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Ratna Sagar
  • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 438
  • Original Price: INR 495.00
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 450000 grams

Pandit Gauri Datt's Devrani Jethani ki Kahani: A Story of Two Sisters-in-Law (1870) is often considered the first novel in Hindi. This sparsely written story, in deceptively simple but elegant prose, follows the fortunes of an Agarwal merchant family in the north Indian town of Meerut, then under colonial rule. Gauri Datt introduces us to a colourful and carefully calibrated canvas of characters in which the family’s two daughters-in-law remain the focus of interest. Following a familiar pattern, only one of them is virtuous, skilled and literate. The novel acknowledges the large extended family’s aspirations for social mobility, reform and modernity, while capturing the swiftly transforming everyday and ritual life of merchant communities. The novel will be of interest to scholars and students of South Asian literature and to historians of language, education, modernity, caste and gender.

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