Author: Aruna ChakravartiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Bengali
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Life and works of Sarat̲caṅdra Cattopādhyāẏa, 1876-1938, Bengali novelist.
Sarat Chandra, Rebel and Humanist
Author: Aruna ChakravartiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Bengali
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Life and works of Sarat̲caṅdra Cattopādhyāẏa, 1876-1938, Bengali novelist.
Those Days
Author: Sunil GangopadhyayPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351187691
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award An award-winning novel that uses both vast panoramic views and lovingly reconstructed detail to provide an unforgettable picture of nineteenth-century Bengal. The Bengal Renaissance and the 1857 uprising form the backdrop to Those Days, a saga of human frailties and strength. The story revolves around the immensely wealthy Singha and Mukherjee families, and the intimacy that grows between them. Ganganarayan Singha's love for Bindubasini, the widowed daughter of the Mukherjees, flounders on the rocks of orthodoxy even as his zamindar father, Ramkamal, finds happiness in the arms of the courtesan, Kamala Sundari. Bimbabati, Ramkamal's wife, is left to cope with her loneliness. A central theme of the novel is the manner in which the feudal aristocracy, sunk in ritual and pleasure, slowly awakens to its social obligations. Historical personae interact with fictional protagonists to enrich the narrative. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the reformer; Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the poet; the father and son duo of Dwarkanath and Debendranath Tagore; Harish Mukherjee, the journalist; Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj radical; David Hare and John Bethune, the English educationists—these and a host of others walk the streets of Calcutta again, to bring alive a momentous time.
Terror and the Postcolonial
Author: Elleke BoehmerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119056195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and terrorism through a series of contemporary and historical case studies from various postcolonial contexts Critically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Raises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization and a postcolonial product Features key essays by well-known theorists, such as Robert J. C. Young, Derek Gregory, and Achille Mbembe, and Vron Ware
First Light
Author: Sunil GangopadhyayPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351188884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 995
Book Description
The sequel to the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Those Days, First Light is a magnificent novel set at the turn of the twentieth century in a Bengal where the old and young India are jostling for space. Prominent among its many characters are Rabindranath Tagore or Robi, the young, dreamy poet, torn between his art and the love for his beautiful, ethereal sister-in-law, Kadambari Devi, and the handsome, dynamic Naren Datta, later to become Swami Vivekananda, who abandons his Brahmo Samaj leanings and surrenders himself completely to his Guru, Sri Ramakrishna. The story also touches upon the lives of the men and women rising to the call of nationalism; the doctors and scientists determined to pull their land out of the morass of superstition and blind beliefs, and the growing theatre movement of Bengal, with its brilliant actors and actresses who leave behind the squalor of their lives every night to deliver lines breathtaking in their beauty. Through all this runs the story of Bharat and Bhumisuta - one an illegitimate prince, the other a slave who rises to become the finest actress of her age - who cling to their self-respect and love in a society which has little time for people like them. Grand in its scale and crackling with the energy of its prose, First Light is a rich and comprehensive portrait of Bengal, from its sleepy, slow-changing villages to the bustling city of Calcutta where the genteel and the grotesque live together. Equally, it is a chronicle of a whole nation waking up to a new, modern sensibility.
States of Emergency
Author: Stephen MortonPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846318491
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
States of Emergency examines how violent anticolonial struggles and the legal, military, and political techniques employed by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in both literary and legal narratives. Through a series of case studies, Stephen Morton considers how colonial states of emergency have been defined and represented in the contexts of Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, and Israel- Palestine, concluding with a compelling assessment of the continuities between colonial states of emergency and the war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M
Author: Kartik Chandra DuttPublisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126008735
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
The End-Century Edition Of The Who'S Who Of Indian Writers, Is An Invaluable Work Of Reference For Writers, Publishers, Readers And Students Of Literary History. For Ease Of Use, The Entries Are Arranged Alphabetically By Surname Or Part Of The Name Preferred By The Writers Themselves. A Large Number Of Cross- References Are Provided To Facilitate The Location And Identification Of The Writers.
Review Projector (India).
Author: Image and Representation
Author: Mushirul HasanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A Comprehensive Selection Of Short Stories That Explore Muslim Lives And Inter-Community Relationships In The Indian Subcontinent.
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Author: Ravi Bhushan