Title: The sleeping dictionary
Description: Kamala, a young peasant woman from West Bengal, is drawn into a forbidden romance in 1930s Calcutta and is caught between the country's independence movement and the British colonial society in which she lives.
Subjects: Passive resistance, Young women, Politics and government, Fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, historical, Young women, fiction, India, fiction, Fiction, general
Places: India
Time periods: 20th century, 1919-1947