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Asghari and Akbari, two sisters married to two brothers in Delhi, circa 1860. In this gripping tale, one sister has every advantage-and sees her life collapse around her. The other faces great difficulties -but eventually comes to dominate her world. Muslim family and social life in old Delhi, with its crowned markets and narrow lanes, its festivals and weddings, moneylenders and cheat, spiteful servants and machinting mothers, have never been as vividly and energetically portrayed as in this novel, the first bestseller in Urdu. This translation , done in 1903 by an admiring Englishman is a classic that is back in print after more than a century.
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