The Elephant Chaser's Daughter

When you are a female born into a poor Indian family, the odds are already stacked greatly against you.Saved by her grandmother from being killed at birth for being a female and abandoned by her mother at a young age, Shilpa Raj faces the formidable constraints placed on her by her family, and the barbs of village elders bound by hundreds of years of oppressive practices and customs that subjugate women in rural India.At the age of four, Shilpa's life veers drastically from that of her family's when she gets selected to study in a free boarding school run by a philanthropist for children from underprivileged homes. While her distraught mother fights to not give the care of her child up to a total stranger, her father, then a poor, illiterate bootlegger, stubbornly stands by his decision despite being warned by the elders in the village to not trust the generous ways of the rich. And thus begins Shilpa's story, both within and outside her family to which she is bound by blood but... [...]Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes Single Author : Shilpa Raj Original Source : Mirc New Files 12-12 Sorted Author by LN, FN: Raj, Shilpa Title Length : 030 Title Parm D : The Elephant Chaser's Daughter Title Parm F : The Elephant Chaser's Daughter Num of Aut : 1 Title Parm B : ( Record ID : 1480 Uncomma Author : Shilpa Raj Title Parm A : The Elephant Chaser's Daughter