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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: mistress of Bhatia House
  name:
    name part: Massey, Sujata
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 420 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
  abstract: India, 1922. Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire, but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly putting herself in harm's way. Later, Perveen learns that Sunanda, who's still ailing from her burns, has been arrested on trumped-up charges made by a man who doesn't seem to exist. Perveen cannot stand by while Sunanda languishes in jail with no hope of justice. She takes Sunanda as a client, even inviting her to live at the Mistry home in Bombay's Dadar Parsi colony. But the joint family household is already full of tension. Perveen's father worries about their law firm taking so much personal responsibility for a client, and her brother and sister-in-law are struggling to cope with their new baby. Perveen herself is going through personal turmoil as she navigates a taboo relationship with a handsome former civil service officer. When the hospital's chief donor dies suddenly, Miriam Penkar, a Jewish-Indian obstetrician, and Sunanda become suspects. Perveen's original case spirals into a complex investigation taking her into the Gujarati strongholds of Kalbadevi and Ghatkopar, and up the coast to Juhu Beach, where a decadent nawab lives with his Australian trophy wife. Then a second fire erupts, and Perveen realizes how much is at stake. Has someone powerful framed Sunanda to cover up another crime? Will Perveen be able to prove Sunanda's innocence without endangering her own family?
  note: Sujata Massey.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Women lawyers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Women's hospitals
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Corruption
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Murder
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Mumbai (India)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: British occupation, 1765-1947
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Bombay (India)
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3563.A79965 M57 2023
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mystery of 1920s Bombay ; 4
    name:
      name part: Massey, Sujata
  identifier: 9781641293297
  identifier: 1641293292
  identifier: 9781641295963
  identifier: 1641295961
  identifier: 9781641293303
  identifier: 2022060492
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230106
    record change date: 20240610185405.3
    record identifier: in00004792206