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catches her attention; but her account slides gradually into talk of Moorthy’s return. The rituals of the village, no matter how traditional and important, cannot be sealed off from current events. At the beginning of Chapter 13, the famous “salt march” to the sea at Dandi by Gandhi and his followers took place in 1930, so that gives us a date for the events depicted in the novel. Although Rao could not have known it, independence lay another seventeen long and bitter years in the future. The British