"Published in 1895, Saguna is the first autobiographical novel in English written by an Indian woman. Through the story of a rebellious adolescent torn between the old world and the new, the author portrays the experience of growing up in a family recently converted to Christianity--the breaking away from traditional Hindu ideologies, the subsequent schizophrenic search for stability. The story is made more poignant by the presence in it of Saguna's mother ...
