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This novel is generally referred to as a story about the Partition of India, but its original title was “Ice-Candy-Man” which allows for broader interpretation of the story. Sexual awakening is a major theme of the book but so is communal identity as…

Marriage of Hindu widows legalized

A wealthy East Indian man gives an apparently non-East Indian woman a crash course in his culture, so he can marry her with his family's approval.

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl witnesses tragedy as her ayah (nanny) is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

A pair of children, born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain, grow up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation.

Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.

This act raised the age of consent for sexual intercourse for all girls, married or unmarried, from ten to twelve years of age in all jurisdictions. Now, violators were subject to criminal prosecution of rape.
Also official known as the "Indian…

Changed the legal marriageable age for boys and girls in India. Amended in 1949 and again in 1978.