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This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati - one of the
pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early
activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian
languages - is both a literary work and a historical document. A
text that makes use - and deliberate misuse - of both British and
Indian literary conventions, "Six Acres and a Third" provides a
unique 'view from below' of Indian village life under colonial
rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, the novel focuses on a small plot
of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected
by the way this property is sold and resold, as new legal
arrangements emerge and new types of people come to populate and
transform the social landscape. This graceful translation
faithfully conveys the rare and compelling account of how the more
unsavory aspects of colonialism affected life in rural India.
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