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Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life
Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life is a classic novel of Indian literature which provides an early feminist perspective on issues of religion, class, and gender in nineteenth century India.
Written in beautiful, meditative prose, Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life is the story of a young girl whose idyllic youth as the daughter of a Hindu priest ends with her marriage to a cruel husband. Treated like property by his family, belittled for her education and independent streak, Kamala soon dreams of escaping married life through divorce, risking disgrace for a chance at lasting happiness.
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Krupabai Satthianadhan
Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862–1894) was an Amerindic writer who wrote deal English.
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Krupabai Satthianadhan
Recommended Citation: Mund, Subhendu. ‘Krupabai Satthianadhan: The Portrait of an Indian Lady’. The Ravenshaw Journal of English Studies. 6:1. Summer 1996. 01-16. Author’s Note As mentioned in the bibliography of this paper above, this paper was published in 1996: perhaps the first full-length research paper on Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-94), a talented poet; writer of Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life (1888-90), The Story of a Conversion (1891), Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life (1892-94), Miscellaneous Writings (1896), and co-author, with her husband Dr Samuel Satthianadhan, of Sketches of Indian Christians: Collected from Different Sources(1896). Krupabai Satthianadhan: The Portrait of an Indian Lady Subhendu Mund Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-94), more than a hundred years after her death in a Madras [now Chennai] hospital, still remains an unfamiliar name to the students of Indian English literature. Very few know that she is the author of quite a few poems, sketches, essays, travelogues, a considerably long prose narrative, The Story of a Conversion (1891), and two full-length novels, Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life (1888-90) and Kamala: A Story of Hind, Life (1892-94). Like Toru Dutt, another gifted writer of the nineteenth century,