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It is the early 1900s in Mumbai. Educated and financially independent, Kalindi Dagge dreams of living in a casteless and equitable society as a single mother—a life far removed from the one she had in the stifling world she left behind. A world where she was the daughter of a brahmin lawyer, Appasaheb Dagge, and the casteless Shanta; and the granddaughter of another brahmin and his schoolteacher mistress who rejected the idea of marriage. A world in which she was an outcast; the daughter of a man who rejected his caste but not his caste pride. A world where she had reclaimed her grandmother’s legacy and chosen, in defiance of family and society, to live as the mistress of Shivsharanappa, a Lingayat tobacco merchant, who later abandoned her and left her on the verge of suicide.

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Dr. Shridhar Vyankatesh Ketkar (MA, PhD) was a sociologist, historian and Marathi novelist. Dr Ketkar is widely known as the chief editor of the first ever encyclopaedia in Marathi, which comprised selected writings of Indian and European scholars, Maharashtriya Jnanakosha. Shanta Gokhale is a bilingual writer, translator and theatre critic. Both her Marathi novels, RitaWelinkar and TyaVarshi, have won Maharashtra State awards. Her most recent books are her memoir, One Foot on the Ground, which won the Crossword Award for non-fiction.

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