Asghari and Akbari. Two sisters married to brothers in Delhi, circa 1860. In this gripping tale, one sister has every advantage—and sees her life collapse around her. The other faces great difficulties—but eventually comes to dominate her world. Muslim family and social life in old Delhi, with its crowded markets and narrow lanes, its festivals and weddings, moneylenders and cheats, spiteful servants and machinating mothers, have never been as vividly and ...
