Indian Stories – Edited By Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Hardcover)

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An anthology of Indian short stories in the Everyman’s Library Pocket Classics series, edited by historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee. Together the stories paint a picture of the great variety of Indian life.

Recurring themes include poverty made worse by powerful landlords and the caste system, women’s place in the family and their wish to shape their own lives, and the pull of the city in a country that is still largely rural. The collection draws on India’s long tradition of storytelling and on the modern short story that took shape from the 1890s with Rabindranath Tagore. An elegant, cloth-bound hardback of 554 pages.