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Sardar Bakhshish Singh was not prepared to even consider Cuckoo’s engagement before Harpreet’s future was clear. He felt this would lead to unnecessary gossip as to why the younger daughter had been betrothed before the elder one.
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© 1998 Dalip Kaur Tiwana, Bhupinder Singh & S. C. Narula
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Tiwana, D.K. (1998). Sixteen. In: Gone are the Rivers. Modern Indian Novels in Translation. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15125-7_16
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