gonna lie, I actually loved this Saguna is the first autobiographical novel in English by an Indian woman, It was published as a book is, and translated into Tamil in, It is a pioneering nineteenthcentury classic, describing an Indian woman's interrogation of her disturbing experience of religious and cultural hybridity, and of feminism in the colonial encounter.
Krupabai Satthianadhanwas one of the first Indian women to write in English, and certainly the first woman novelist in English from India, Krupabai was born to Haripunt and Radhabai Khisty, Hindu converts to Christianity, in Ahmednagar, then in the Bombay Presidency, Her father died when she was still a child, and she was brought up by her mother and elder brother, Bhasker, Bhasker, who was much older, had a strong influence on her and endeavoured to awaken her intellect by lending her books and discussing many issues with her.
However, he too died young, and Krupabai immortalised him in her semi autobiographical novel Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life, Her mother, though formally a Christian, still followed
many Hindu pr Krupabai Satthianadhanwas one of the first Indian women to write in English, and certainly the first woman novelist in English from India.
Krupabai was born to Haripunt and Radhabai Khisty, Hindu converts to Christianity, in Ahmednagar, then in the Bombay Presidency, Her father died when she was still a child, and she was brought up by her mother and elder brother, Bhasker, Bhasker, who was much older, had a strong influence on her and endeavoured to awaken her intellect by lending her books and discussing many issues with her.
However, he too died young, and Krupabai immortalised him in her semi autobiographical novel Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life, Her mother, though formally a Christian, still followed many Hindu practices, from Wikipedia sitelink.
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