Bücher von Cornelia Sorabji

The author, whose works include "Love and Life behind the Purdah" and "Sun Babies," is well-known for fusing Eastern and Western viewpoints in a unique way. Her legal training at Lincoln's Inn and Oxford education, as a Christian Parsee, demonstrate her diverse upbringing. She has dedicated her life to the admirable goal of supporting and lessening the difficulties that her sisters who are sequestered behind the purdahs endure. This collection of thoughtful studies of Indian women is a monument to her dedication. Her profound knowledge of Eastern and Western cultures allows her to illuminate the complexities of Indian women's lives, hardships, and victories. By using the power of her words, she creates a bridge across worlds by providing a distinct viewpoint while also promoting empathy and understanding amongst nations.

Sun-Babies: Studies in the Child-life of India by Cornelia SorabjiMy fastest real baby friend was a Moon-baby. He was English, he was adorable, and I began to know him very soon after the fairies brought him dancing to the Earth on a silver-blue Moon-ray.A little pensive in repose, his dear face was, when he smiled, the gladness of a spring meadow of golden cowslips.In my heart I treasure many memories. . . . Geoffrey coming in from his walk with a half-eaten ginger nut which he had saved for his friend: "I brang it all the way for you"; or Geoffrey with a crushed dandelion in a hot little fist, another offering; Geoffrey listening to nursery tales; Geoffrey adoring his mother, like whom, for him, to the end of his days, no one ever existed, or could exist; Geoffrey at five years of age, when on a rare occasion I had to leave the house without bidding him good-bye. That was a beloved nursery memory. When told that I had gone, he would not at first believe. "She did not tell me," he kept insisting. But belief followed on fruitless search, and then: "Come upstars, Nannie," said he to his nurse; and, when up in the nursery, old Nannie was made to cut off a gold-brown curl to wrap away in silver paper against my return.

Love and Life Behind the Purdah (1901) is a collection of short stories by Indian writer, lawyer, and social reformer Cornelia Sorabji. Raised by Christian missionaries, Sorabji trained as a lawyer at Oxford University before returning to India to work with women and orphans across the country. Her fictional work illustrates a creative imagination and well-rounded sense of the diverse political and religious identities that make up the population of India. In her first published book, Sorabji spins tales of women and children from varied sociopolitical backgrounds. Writing on the Hindu purdahnashin--women cut off from the outside world--Sorabji drew on her experience as a litigator representing these oppressed figures in legal cases regarding property rights and other instances of oppression. Other stories in the collection follow Zoroastrian priestesses and the lives of orphaned children, character studies which serve as crucial catalysts for the discussion of child marriage, the practice of sati, and other controversial traditions prominent in India in the nineteenth century. Love and Life Behind the Purdah is a beautiful, informative meditation on the necessity of perseverance in the face of famine, disease, silence, and death. A lawyer at heart, Sorabji weaves powerful political commentary into her vibrant prose portraits of women and children down, but never out. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Cornelia Sorabji's Love and Life Behind the Purdah is a classic work of Indian literature reimagined for modern readers.