The diary of a maidservant Ek naukrani ki diary

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The diary of a maidservant = Ek naukrani ki diary

Krishna Baldev Vaid ; translated from Hindi by Sagaree Sengupta in collaboration with the author ; with and introduction by Ashok Vajpeyi

Oxford University Press, 2007

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Ek naukrani ki diary

एक नौकरानी की डायरी

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The book is a translation of a novel by Krishna Baldev Vaid,a pre-eminent author of Hindi stories, novels, and dramas. dedicated to hard-working women domestics, The Diary of a Maidservant delineates the life and thoughts of Shanti, a young woman who earns a living as a casual household help. Through the 'diary', given as a gift to Shanti, the teenage maidservant slowly discovers her impulses, dreams, and contradictions, and the reader is gradually drawn into the complications of everyday relationships between masters and servants and men and women.

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