The Uprooted Vine is the translation of Swarnakumari Debi's Bengali social novel Snehalata ba Palita (1892), which was brought out serially in Bharati between 1889 and 1891. In this novel, the author takes up the cause of the victims of the Hindu patriarchal system and the joint family who were deprived of their rights, exploited as domestic drudges, and marginalized to the extent of being denied shelter and maintenance. The protagonist, Snehalata, an orphan and ...
