Title rated 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 14 ratings(14 ratings)
Audiobook CD, 2013
Current format, Audiobook CD, 2013, Unabridged., Available .
Audiobook CD, 2013
Current format, Audiobook CD, 2013, Unabridged., Available . Offered in 0 more formats
The term 'sleeping dictionary' was coined for young Indian women who slept with British men and educated them in the ways of India. Set between 1925 and the end of World War II, The story of Kamala, born to a peasant family in West Bengal, who makes her way to Calcutta of the 1930s. Haunted by a forbidden love, she is caught between the raging independence movement and the British colonial society she finds herself inhabiting.
From the community