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Kans
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Kaans is the eleventh novel of Bhagwandas Morwal, a modern painter of rural life. Like his previous novels, this novel also has the regional flavour and folk culture of Indian society in it. In this novel, you will hear the screams of many daughters of the soil like Chandbi, Zaitooni, Zainab, Shaista, Sameena, Aristoun, bleeding from the blunt edge of the male chauvinistic law made for the Meo community of Mewat, the most backward district of Haryana, a state in North India, i.e. the old Gurgaon district before independence. This novel strikes deeply at those contradictions of Indian society, which are becoming deeper in the so-called modern and civilized society due to inhuman and barbaric laws like Rivaaz-e-Aam i.e. customary law. Like many states of India, such a law prevalent in a community not only has legal validity, but is also being used openly in independent India against its own constitution. Like many primitive laws of Indian society, which are neither followed by Shastras nor Sharia, this custom is one such law. If it is followed, it is only that law which believes in considering women as second class citizens. In a country whose constitution promises to protect the rights of women, and in whose eyes every citizen has the right to equality, is it fair that countless daughters of the same country are deprived of their ancestral property under the pretext of this law and forced to wander from door to door? This novel is such an indomitable narration of the legal thorns placed in the path of the daughters of our own land by their caretakers, and the excruciating pains caused by them, that going through it is like going through one's own unbearable sorrows. This is not only the story of Chandbi, Zaitooni, Zainab, Shaista, Samina, Arastoona, but also the story of many daughters like them, who are no less than unwanted grass like reeds in Indian society even today. An unwanted grass that grows on its own after the rainy season by breaking the hard body of the earth
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