A Village Divided

Rahi masoom rezas honest and controversial novel unfolds during the latter years of the raj and the first decade of independence and portrays the rival halves of a zamindar family, their loves, fights and litigations it attacks the creation of pakistan and explores the abolition of the zamindari system and its impact at the village level this is a semi-autobiographical work set in the authors village of gangauli, in ghazipur district on the fringes of avadh

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