Mistaken Identity
novel by Sahgal
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"Mistaken Identity" is a novel by Nayantara Sahgal, an Indian journalist and novelist known for her fiction that explores the personal crises of India's elite within settings of political upheaval. Sahgal's novels often place stories of personal conflict against the backdrop of Indian political crises.1
"Mistaken Identity" is one of Sahgal's novels set in colonial India. A "case of mistaken identity" refers to a situation where someone or something is incorrectly identified as someone or something else.123
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