Bøker av 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.

Through the lens of a Westerner, this book takes a look at the various cultural practices involving children in India. An insightful read for anyone interested in child development and psychology.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Shubala - A Child-Mother By Cornelia Sorabji first published in 1920. A little pamphlet entitled "Shubala-A Child Mother" has been written by Miss Cornelia Sorabji with the object of helping the infant welfare work in aid of which the Exhibition at Delhi, opened by Lady Chemsford on Saturday, has been organised. If anything were needed to arouse the sympathy of the reader for the objects of this exhibition and of the League which Lady Chelmsford is initiating, it might be found in the poignant pathos of the stories told in this pamphlet.-- stories evidently founded on fact. The pity of them is enough to cause physical pain.

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.

Between the Twilights: Being studies of India women by one of themselves by Cornelia Sorabji first published in 1908. IN the language of the Zenana there are two twilights, "when the Sun drops into the sea," and " when he splashes up stars for spray," . . . the Union, that is, of Earth and Sun, and, again, of Light and Darkness.

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.