Chammi is a fictional character and parallel protagonist of the 1960 novel ''Aangan'' by

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Biography of the fictional character

Chammi lives in a small house of her grandmother in

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where her father has left her after her mother's death. Chammi shares a strong bond with Aaliya, the protagonist of the novel and loves Jameel, son of her great uncle. She is a diehard supporter of

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. She first marries a peasant on the insistence of the family, when Jameel rejects her. At the time of partition, she refused her husband to go to Pakistan.

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