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DeScriPtionBaba Padmanji’s 1857 Marathi novelYamunaparyatan highlights the suffering of Hinduwidows, forced into a life of loneliness and torture by their cruel Brahminicalfamilies. The heroine of the novel, Yamuna, starts off as a happily married woman,sharing a bond of mutual trust and respect with her husband. She travels withhim across various regions of the Bombay Presidency and western India and herinteractions with widows on the way reveal the extent of their suffering within Hindupatriarchal and Brahminical society. Yamuna sympathizes with them and calls forurgent reform, while advocating for widow remarriage.When tragedy strikes and Yamuna is widowed, she too is tortured and stigmatized.But the feisty young woman manages to start a new chapter in life by converting toChristianity and remarrying a Christian man.Yamuna’s Journey is the first English translation of Padmanji’s pathbreaking novel. Inthis engrossing and layered translation, Deepra Dandekar paints a poignant portraitof Indian women’s lives in the nineteenth century. It offers contemporary readers atimely, necessary glimpse of history.
