Set in colonial Indian society during the early decades of the nineteenth century, Six Acres and a Third tells a tale of wealth and greed, of property and theft. ‘Six Acres and a Third’ as a wonderful story recounts the rapacious greed of the main character, Rama Chandra Mangaraj, and his mistress Champa, their lust for a small but fertile piece of land measuring ‘six acres of and a third’. Google Scholar Consider Fakir Mohan Senapati’s enormously sly, satirical, and light-footed novel Six Acres and a Third, written in Odia in 1902 and only translated into English in 2006. Through a close reading of Six Acres and a Third, I argue that in his narrator's statements concerning women and the relationships between female and male characters, Senapati presents vivid, complex, and non-sexist images of rural women. A text that makes use—and deliberate misuse—of both British and Indian literary conventions, Six Acres and a Third provides a unique "view from below" of Indian village life under colonial rule. Google Scholar In Six Acres and a Third: The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India, by Fakir Mohan Senapati. Mohanty, Satya P. Introduction. Further, many of the narrator's comments reveal his society's injustice towards women and the need for change. On one level it is the story of an evil landlord, Ramachandra Mangaraj, who exploits poor peasants and uses the new legal system to appropriate the property of oth- ers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Senapati's Six Acres and a Third is fascinating for its blend of realist and experimental narrative modes deployed for satire of not only colonialism but also the structures of greed and resistance in Orissan village society. 17 Anjaria, Ulka, “ Satire, Literary Realism and the Indian State: Six Acres and a Third and Raag Darbari,” Economic and Political Weekly 41.46 (2006): 4799. “Satire, Literary Realism, and the Indian State: Six Acres and a Third and Raag Darbari.” Economic and Political Weekly 41, no. Translated by Rabi Shankar Mishra, Satya P. Mohanty, Jatindra K. Nayak, and Paul St. Pierre. Consider Fakir Mohan Senapati’s enormously sly, satirical, and light-footed novel Six Acres and a Third, written in Odia in 1902 and only translated into English in 2006. Consider Fakir Mohan Senapati’s enormously sly, satirical, and light-footed novel Six Acres and a Third, written in Odia in 1902 and only translated into English in 2006.The plot of Senapati’s novel revolves around a village landowner’s plot to usurp the small landholding of some humble weavers. Forget about things , consider our small plot of land , measuring 46 (2006): 4795–4800. The plot of Senapati’s novel revolves around a village landowner’s plot to usurp the small landholding of some humble weavers. Fakir Mohan Senapati presented the picture of various kinds of relations in …