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Title: Austenistan; Author: Laaleen Sukhera (editor); Publisher: Bloomsbury India Publishers: Pages: 288 Price: Rs 350 The heroines, living (or aspiring) to settle into stately homes in the class-conscious society of Regency Britain, as we meet in classical literature, may seem far distant in time, space and social mores to their contemporary counterparts in metropolitan Pakistan. But what if they turn out to be sisters under the skin? Could Elizabeth Bennet (of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"), or even her mother, have their equivalents in Islamabad, or Lady Susan (the heroine of Austen's eponymous novel) be as likely to be found…