The book is indeed a saga of India rural life as depicted in the novels in pre and post-Independence days, right from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s domestic novel Rajmohan’s wife (1864) to Kamala Markandaya’s The Coffer Dams on an industrial background. The pre-Independence novels were mostly domestic stories whereas the post-Independence novels were confined to the placid rural life. Then, the village-city encounter throbbing with life followed and there cam ...
