About the Book: A Comma in a Sentence: Extraordinary Change in an Ordinary
Family Over Six Generations
In the early 1800s, in the small, sheltered village of Vilakkudi in the Tanjore
district of Tamil Nadu, Ranganathan, a small-time landowner, was raising his
children, at the time unaffected by British rule in India or upheavals in the
rest of the world. As time passed, railways were built and newspapers appeared;
isolated villages like Vilakkudi were exposed to social and cultural change. It
is this transition that the author, Ranganathans great-great-great grandson,
tries to trace through the story of his family.
Anecdotal and fascinating, A Comma in a Sentence includes