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Victory Colony, 1950

Author(s): Bhaswati Ghosh

Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance

Era(s): 1950

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A novel set in Calcutta, shortly after the Partition of India. Along with other refugees from what is now Pakistan, a young woman makes her way to the teeming city of Calcutta and tries to adjust to a new life.

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Wonderful storytelling, stimulating and moving

Author: joycey

This compelling novel is set in Calcutta, three years after India’s painful partition along ethnic lines and at a time when, as the author puts it, Every day, new batches of refugees spilled into the city like sugar falling...

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