Seasons of the Palm is a fictional novel set in Kongunadu (western Tamil Nadu) describing the day to day lives and struggles of a Dalit untouchable boy, Shorty, and his friends. The story revolves aro

Seasons of the Palm is a fictional novel set in Kongunadu (western Tamil Nadu) describing the day to day lives and struggles of a Dalit untouchable boy, Shorty, and his friends. The story revolves aro

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Seasons of the Palm is a fictional novel set in Kongunadu (western Tamil Nadu) describing the day to day lives and struggles of a Dalit untouchable boy, Shorty, and his friends. The story revolves around the economy of bonded labor, wherein young boys and girls are forced to work in the fields of the upper caste-the Gounders, to whom the parents of these children are indebted. All dealings between these people are done by word of mouth, thereby a firm contractual obligation is never arrived upon and is left to the whims and fancy of the master