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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
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English
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For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition...
3) Pyre
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Language
English
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Saroja and Kumaresan, a young married couple, return to Kumaresan's family village where they hope to build a happy life. But they have a dangerous secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in danger. Will they--and their marriage--survive?
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The eldest of seven children born low-caste in rural India, Mamta is abused and rejected by a father who can see no reason to "water someone else's garden" until a husband is found for her. Seeking escape in matrimony, Mamta is soon forced to flee her village and the horrors of her arranged marriage to the bustle of a small city, where she struggles to find a precarious state of acceptance and make peace with her past.
5) Blue oranges
Publisher
Moser Baer Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
Blue Oranges is based on the characters Kevin, Shalini and Nilesh. Kevin and Shalini were excellent painters and they were in love. When differences in their social standings came in their way, they had decided to run away. That fateful day Kevin waited for Shalini but she did not arrive. Kevin left Goa all by himself. Eight years later they meet again in the streets of Mumbai. A few short hours later Shalini is murdered. Kevin is arrested from the...
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Publisher
Bo-Tree House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
306, v pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After his father disowns him over a forbidden love with a lower caste girl, Shankar, consumed by anger, marries her anyway and emigrates to the US to start a new life--completely cutting himself off from his family in India and vowing never to speak of them again. Now in retirement, as he tells stories from his childhood to his grandchildren, they generate the double-edged effect of charming his grandchildren and at the same time taking up suppressed,...
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