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      The Diary of a Maidservant: Ek Naukrani Ki Diary

      by Krishna Baldev Vaid
      Published
      Feb 2008
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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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      Feb 2008 Oxford University Press (UK) ISBN13 9780195691993 ISBN10 0195691997
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