The Light Within - A Civilisational Novel of Caste, Conscience, and the Courage to Become Human

Abhijeet Kumar

ISBN 10: 9376319761 / ISBN 13: 9789376319763

Verlag: White Falcon Publishing Solutions LLP, 2026

pp. 300. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26406492737

Inhaltsangabe:

The Light Within is a civilisational novel set in rural North India, where caste is not merely a social order but an inherited fate. Through the intertwined lives of children, teachers, reformers, and guardians of tradition, the novel explores how inequality is learned, enforced, questioned—and ultimately unlearned.

At its heart lies a quiet revolution: not of slogans or violence, but of conscience. As education enters spaces once guarded by fear and hierarchy, ordinary people confront extraordinary choices—between obedience and dignity, silence and truth, ritual and humanity.

Spanning decades, the novel examines how systems survive not through cruelty alone, but through everyday consent—and how they begin to collapse when individuals refuse to internalise injustice. Written with moral clarity and emotional restraint, The Light Within is not a story of heroes and villains, but of human beings discovering that dignity, once awakened, cannot be put back to sleep.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Light Within - A Civilisational Novel of...
Verlag: White Falcon Publishing Solutions LLP
Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New