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082			_aSEK S
100			_aSekhon, Sant Singh _913470
245			_aBlood and Soil
260			_aNew Delhi _bNational Book Trust _c2023
300			_a282 p.
520			_aSet in rural Punjab of the first quarter of the 20th century, the novel unravels the cultural ethos through social, political and religious intricacies. The narrative begins in 1901. A newly-wed couple, Baij Singhand Daya Kaur, migrate from their village in the eastern Punjab to the Western Punjab (now part of Pakistan after the partition of 1947) and try to make a new living. The story revolves around complex emotions of the protagonists, who faced with a difficult life of peasantry, painfully attempt to secure the future of their children.
650			_aNovel _913471
942			_cB
999			_c359167 _d359167