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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Night Calcutta Burns
Chapter 3: — Three Sisters, One Shattered Home
Chapter 4: — Calcutta’s Shadow and Deepa’s Secret
Chapter 5: — Engagement, Jealousy, and the First Break
Chapter 6: — Letters from America, Blood in Ranipur
Chapter 7: — Deepa’s Prison in Dacca
Chapter 8: — Jamini’s Gamble
Chapter 9: — The River, the Bullet, the Truth
Chapter 10: — A Lamp Lit, A Life Rebuilt
Description
Independence follows three Bengali sisters—Priya, Deepa, and Jamini—whose coming-of-age collides with India’s final, violent steps toward freedom and Partition. When their idealistic doctor-father dies during the Calcutta riots, the women are forced to shoulder survival, dignity, and duty in a society that measures them through dowry, reputation, and obedience.
As Bengal fractures, so does the family: Priya fights for a medical future that the world keeps denying her; Deepa is driven into a secret life across religious lines; Jamini, long sidelined, becomes the reluctant pillar holding their shattered home together. Through loss, betrayal, courage, and impossible compromises, the sisters discover that independence is not a slogan—it is a daily act, paid for in love and blood.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who love historical fiction rooted in India’s freedom movement and Partition-era upheaval
- Fans of multi-POV family sagas centered on women’s agency, sacrifice, and survival
- Readers seeking emotionally intense stories about identity, belonging, and the cost of choosing one’s own life