Provides a 'view from below' of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, this title focuses on a small plot of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected by the way this property is sold and resold, as legal arrangements emerge and types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape.
"The publication of Fakir Mohan Senapati's first novel Six Acres and a Third in English translation will be a significant event for not only Indian literature, but world literature. Along with Rabindranath Tagore's Gora, Senapati's Six Acres and a Third is a foundational text in Indian literary history."-U.R. Anantha Murthy, author of Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
