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Sun-Babies: Studies in the Child-life of India by Cornelia Sorabji My fastest real baby friend was a Moon-baby. He was English, he was adorable, and I began to know him very soon after the fairies brought him dancing to the Earth on a silver-blue Moon-ray. A little pensive in repose, his dear face was, when he smiled, the gladness of a spring meadow of golden cowslips. In my heart I treasure many memories. . . . Geoffrey coming in from his ...

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In these stories of Indian life in the late nineteenth century, Cornelia Sorabji captures the experiences of Hindu purdahnashin—women cut off from the outside world—Zoroastrian priestesses, and orphaned children alike. Filled with examples of struggle and perseverance, Love and Life Behind the Purdah is a moving, socially conscious portrait of a vast country and its diverse peoples.

In these stories of Indian life in the late nineteenth century, Cornelia Sorabji captures the experiences of Hindu purdahnashin-women cut off from the outside world-Zoroastrian priestesses, and orphaned children alike. Filled with examples of struggle and perseverance, Love and Life Behind the Purdah is a moving, socially conscious portrait of a vast country and its diverse peoples.

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Excerpt from Shubala: A Child-MotherThe tragedy was marriage - which, said her mother, could not really, no not even for love of me, be postponed a minute longer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving ...

Excerpt from Between the Twilights: Being Studies of Indian, Women by One of ThemselvesYes, the manner of its loitering is varied, but always, always, is it an hour of enchant ment, this hour Between the Twilights: and it is my very own. I choose it, from out the day's full sheaf, and I sit with it in the Silences on my roof-tree.It was in this hour, through a hot summer, that the thoughts which make this little book came to me, and were writt...