Author : Golap Khound
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (888 download)
Book Synopsis Girmit by : Golap Khound
Download or read book Girmit written by Golap Khound and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golap Chandra Khound’s Girmit (‘Indenture’) is a collection of ten short stories based on the tea gardens of Assam. Khound earned notable fame as a short story writer of the Ramdhenu era (1951-1967) and he is at his dexterous best in this collection of short stories based on the highly idiosyncratic tea garden way of Assam. The word ‘Girmit’ roughly translates to ‘agreement’ or ‘contract’ and all the stories in this collection feature the indentured labourers and their lives as deeply woven with the tea plantations of colonial and post-colonial Assam. Girmit has stories of the exploiters and the exploited; of the British Sahibs and their Indian shadows or Babus; of a bountiful landscape and tea garden people; of hopes, horrors and terrifying consequences and of pathos and promise.