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Book Synopsis Devi Chaudhurani: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 by : Shamik Dasgupta
Download or read book Devi Chaudhurani: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 written by Shamik Dasgupta and published by YALI DREAM CREATIONS. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the famous novel 'Devi Choudhurani' by eminent Bengali author Bankim Chandra Chattyopadhyay (who wrote the song Vande Mataram). 1795, The age of Matsyanyaya in Colonial India, a state of lawlessness similar to the sea where the Big fish eats the small. The East India Company like a hungry great white shark devours the wealth of the nation. The smaller Native Kings and Landlords despotize the farmers and common folk for the mounting taxes imposed by the Raj. The common folk suffer relentlessly under this vicious cycle, but perhaps the ones who suffered most were the women of the country, abused by a corrupt and stringent patriarchal rule which encouraged malpractices like Polygamy, Child Marriage the loss of all social status of the widows and the heinous ritual of Sati, where a woman has to burn in the pyre of her dead husband.
Book Synopsis DEVI CHAUDHURANI – DWAIRATH – ENGLISH by : Shamik Dasgupta
Download or read book DEVI CHAUDHURANI – DWAIRATH – ENGLISH written by Shamik Dasgupta and published by YALI DREAM CREATIONS. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bengal 1795, the age of Matsanyaya during the dawn of the colonial rule of India. There is complete lawlessness as the golden land of Bengal is ravaged by raiders and Marauders both from within India and across the seas. The Zamindars oppress, the Arakan, Portuguese pirates loot and pillage, the Maratha Barghis capture hundreds of Bengali men women and children and sell them in slave markets. Women are the worst victims as they are attacked by the marauders and oppressed by a tyrannical patriarchal society. In these turbulent times Prafulya, a young woman, after losing her parents goes to her in-laws and husband for shelter. Her in laws were the rich Zamindars of a province called Bhootnath, but though she was welcomed by her mother in law, he farther in law Harballav Roy Chowdhury scorned her as she belonged to a poor family. Her husband Brajasundar however saw her for the first time after they were married when they were children and he is mesmerized by Prafulya’s beauty. Prafulya is insulted brutally by her father in law and runs away from the estate. She was expecting death in the depths of the forest when she befriends a tiger cub and together they set out to find shelter which they find in a small island in the estuary. On the island Prafulya meets Mir Madan Khan, the general of Nawab Siraj-Ud-Daula. He had been hoarding the treasures of the last Sultan of Bengal. Mir Madan breathed his last in a few days, making Prafulya the custodian of the treasure. Prafulya later is attacked by the dreaded bandit leader Bhavani Pathak and she fights him bravely. Bhavani is impressed with Prafulya’s bravado and offers her to join his crew. Bhavani runs a secret paramilitary force called the ‘Santaans’ in the guise of bandits. They loot the rich and feed the poor. Bhavani suffers from a strange genetic disorder for which he has a limited lifespan and albeit being a man in late forties he looks feeble and small like a teenager. Bhavani decides to make Prafulya the next leader of the Santaans and trains her likewise. Prafulya is renamed Devi Chaudhurani and she is given the task of fighting for the poor and oppressed, but for that they have to fight the marauding enemies and above all looms the threat of the British Empire. Devi sets out to find the dreaded pirate Albuquerque to defeat him and bring an end to the terror of the Portuguese pirates as her first mission.
Book Synopsis Devi Chaudhurani by : Baṅkimacandra Caṭṭopādhyāẏa
Download or read book Devi Chaudhurani written by Baṅkimacandra Caṭṭopādhyāẏa and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lost Letters and Feminist History by : Geraldine Forbes
Download or read book Lost Letters and Feminist History written by Geraldine Forbes and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Indian Women's Short Fiction by : Joel Kuortti
Download or read book Indian Women's Short Fiction written by Joel Kuortti and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Indian Women S Short Fiction Has Always Enjoyed Equal Importance And Popularity As Their Novels, Very Little Critical Attention Has Been Paid To It So Far. Indian Women S Short Fiction Seeks To Fulfil This Long Felt Need. It Puts Together Fifteen Perceptive And Analytical Articles By Scholars Across The World. The Articles, Which Are Focussed On Native Indian Writing As Well As Diasporic Short Fiction, Deal With Such Interesting Literary Issues As Construction Of Femininity, Disablement And Enablement, Bengali Heritage, Hybrid Identities, Nostalgia, Representation Of The Partition Violence, Tradition And Modernity, And Cultural Perspectivism.It Is Hoped That The Book Will Prove Useful To Scholars Interested In Short Fiction Studies In General And Indian Women S Short Fiction In Particular.
Book Synopsis En-Gendering India by : Sangeeta Ray
Download or read book En-Gendering India written by Sangeeta Ray and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts—primarily novels—produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism. Through her readings of works by writers including Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Harriet Martineau, Flora Annie Steel, Anita Desai, and Bapsi Sidhaa, Ray demonstrates that Indian women were presented as upper class and Hindu, an idealization that paradoxically served the needs of both colonial and nationalist discourses. The Indian nation’s goal of self-rule was expected to enable women’s full participation in private and public life. On the other hand, British colonial officials rendered themselves the protectors of passive Indian women against their “savage” male countrymen. Ray shows how the native woman thus became a symbol for both an incipient Indian nation and a fading British Empire. In addition, she reveals how the figure of the upper-class Hindu woman created divisions with the nationalist movement itself by underscoring caste, communal, and religious differences within the newly emerging state. As such, Ray’s study has important implications for discussions about nationalism, particularly those that address the concepts of identity and nationalism. Building on recent scholarship in feminism and postcolonial studies, En-Gendering India will be of interest to scholars in those fields as well as to specialists in nationalism and nation-building and in Victorian, colonial, and postcolonial literature and culture.
Book Synopsis The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi: A Diary & The Tagores and Sartorial Style: A Photo Essay by : Sukhendu Ray
Download or read book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi: A Diary & The Tagores and Sartorial Style: A Photo Essay written by Sukhendu Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent family which became synonymous with the cultural regeneration of India, specifically of Bengal, in the nineteenth century. The first writing is a sensitive translation of Sarala Devis memoirs from the Bengali, Jeevaner Jharapata, by Sukhendu Ray. It is the first autobiography written by a nationalist woman leader of India. Sarala Devi was Rabindranath Tagores niece and had an unusual life. The translation unfolds, among other things, what it was like to grow up in a big affluent house Jorasanko, that had more than 116 inmates and a dozen cooks! The second writing by Malavika Karlekar is a photo essay, creatively conceived, visually reflecting the social and cultural trends of the times, through styles of dress, jewellery and accoutrements. The modern style of wearing a sari was introduced by Jnanadanandini Devi, a member of the Tagore family. The introduction by the well-known historian, Bharati Ray, very perceptively captures the larger context of family, marriage, womens education and politics of the time which touched Sarala Devis life. She points out that if memoirs are a kind of social history then womens diaries record social influences not found in official accounts and are therefore, a rich source of documentation.
Book Synopsis Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women by : Tahera Aftab
Download or read book Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women written by Tahera Aftab and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an annotated source for the study of the public and private lives of South Asian Muslim women.
Book Synopsis Devi Chaudhurani by : Shamik Dasgupta
Download or read book Devi Chaudhurani written by Shamik Dasgupta and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dēvīcaudhurāṇi by : Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Download or read book Dēvīcaudhurāṇi written by Bankim Chandra Chatterji and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel by a classical Bengali writer who narrates the colourful life of a famous female dacoit who fought agaist the injustice of the British raj (late 19th Century) and brought to light the cowardice of the zamindars of Bengal.
Book Synopsis Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India by : Mallarika Sinha Roy
Download or read book Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India written by Mallarika Sinha Roy and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most significant playwrights and theatre-makers of postcolonial India, Utpal Dutt (1929-1993), was an early exponent of rethinking colonial history through political theatre. Dutt envisaged political theatre as part of the larger Marxist project, and his incorporation of new developments in Marxist thinking, including the contributions of Antonio Gramsci, makes it possible to conceptualise his protagonists as insurgent subalterns. A decolonial approach to staging history remained a significant element in Dutt's artistic project. This Element examines Dutt's passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned through the writing and producing of plays about the peasant revolts and armed anti-colonial movements which took place during the period of British rule. Drawing on contemporary debates in political theatre regarding the autonomy of the spectator and the performance of history, the author locates Dutt's political theatre in a historical frame.
Book Synopsis The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi by : Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
Download or read book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi written by Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Deri and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent family which became synonymous with the cultural regeneration of India, specifically of Bengal, in the ninteenth century. --
Book Synopsis Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47 by : Anup Taneja
Download or read book Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47 written by Anup Taneja and published by Har-Anand Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Critically Analyses The Success Achieved By Gandhi In Mobilizing Women On A Mass Scale For The Cause Of The Country`S Independence.
Download or read book Provocations written by Susan Bordo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of its kind, Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought is historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and cultural borders. Emphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this anthology heralds a new approach to studying feminist history. Provocations includes engaging, historically significant primary sources by writers of many nationalities in numerous genres—from political manifestos to theoretical and cultural analysis to poetry and fiction. These texts range from those of classical antiquity to others composed during the Arab Spring and represent Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Western Europe, and the United States. Each section begins with an introductory essay that presents central ideas and explores connections among readings, placing them in historical, national, and intellectual contexts and concluding with questions for discussion and reflection.
Book Synopsis Land of Two Rivers by : Nitish Sengupta
Download or read book Land of Two Rivers written by Nitish Sengupta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land of Two Rivers chronicles the story of one of the most fascinating and influential regions in the Indian subcontinent. The confluence of two major river systems, Ganga and Brahmaputra, created the delta of Bengal—an ancient land known as a centre of trade, learning and the arts from the days of the Mahabharata and through the ancient dynasties. During the medieval era, this eventful journey saw the rise of Muslim dynasties which brought into being a unique culture, quite distinct from that of northern India. The colonial conquest in the eighteenth century opened the modern chapter of Bengal’s history and transformed the social and economic structure of the region. Nitish Sengupta traces the formation of Bengali identity through the Bengal Renaissance, the growth of nationalist politics and the complex web of events that eventually led to the partition of the region in 1947, analysing why, despite centuries of shared history and culture, the Bengalis finally divided along communal lines. The struggle of East Pakistan to free itself from West Pakistan’s dominance is vividly described, documenting the economic exploitation and cultural oppression of the Bengali people. Ultimately, under the leadership of Bangabandhu Mujibur Rahman, East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971. Land of Two Rivers is a scholarly yet extremely accessible account of the development of Bengal, sketching the eventful and turbulent history of this ancient civilization, rich in scope as well as in influence.
Book Synopsis A History of Modern India by : Ishita Banerjee-Dube
Download or read book A History of Modern India written by Ishita Banerjee-Dube and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.
Download or read book In So Many Words written by Aparna Basu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will mark a new trend in dealing with women’s varied experiences of life: individual introductions situate the narrator in a context – and then her voice takes over, with no intervention from the editors (except to provide footnotes wherever necessary). The personal narrative — be it an autobiography, a letter or a diary — has come to be recognised as an acceptable data source in history and social science. Literary critics and students of literature too find considerable use in reading the personal writings of poets, fiction and crime writers. In this book, readings of personal narratives help in painting various images of lives that we can only know at second hand. The mélange includes memoirs, published articles, ‘portraits from memory’, a collection of essays , and an oral interview. In all, the self was the focus. The writings of Sailabala, Li Gotami, and Shakuntala go beyond a recounting of their lives and deal with spiritual and travel experiences. Three of the essays are excerpts from published autobiographies — Sarala Devi Chaudhurani’s Jeevaner Jharapata (Life’s Fallen Leaves), Kalpana Dutt’s Reminiscences and Sailabala Das’s A Look Before and After. Vidyagauri Nilkanth’s writings are essays and a selection of amazingly candid letters exchanged with her husband. Anasuya Sarabahi’s is an interview in Gujarati with niece Gira and Monica’s a selection from an unpublished memoir. Li Gotami, whose original name was Rutty Petit, travelled to Manasarovar, and a few of the magazine articles on this amazing journey have been reproduced here. Whichever form a woman chooses, writing about her self, is emancipatory; she may be a person who has so far received little attention from the family or the world. Or she may be one who is a well-known public figure – yet little is known about her childhood. So she writes about many selves – life is not about one coherent self but rather one of many lives and experiences. In other words,
