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Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1952) pioneers the tradition of Indian-Parsee women’s literature in English. She is also one of the earliest women in India to fictionalize the Indian woman in the English language. Sorabji was a prolific writer, and along with her memoirs, India Calling, her biographies of her parents and of her sister, she published fiction and prose. Love and Life Behind the Purdah, her first published book contains some of her most moving and ...
"Born into a Parsee family in Nasik in the Bombay Presidency in 1866, Cornelia Sorabji’s identity was shaped by three streams of cultural influences—the British, the Indian and the Parsee. Sorabji was India’s first woman barrister. This is her autobiography from early childhood to adulthood. Written with a radically feminist perspective, it traces the author’s self-development, and depicts the status and lifestyle of orthodox Hindu women, to the ...