The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay
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The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay

Drifter and Dreamer

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eBook - ePub

The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay

Drifter and Dreamer

About this book

Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay has been the most popular writer of novels and short stories in his native Bengaland in India at large. Despite this, he remains unrecognized in the English speaking world. Narasingha P. Sil fills this void by presenting a historical critical assessment of his upbringing and the experiences that influenced his masterful and magnificent work. The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay rescues the authentic man, a caste-conscious and patriarchal Brahmin of colonial Bengal, from the cuckoo land of gratuitous praise and panegyric showered on the Aparajeya Kathasilpi, the "invincible" wordsmith. The author exposes Sharatchandra's innate conservative worldview and his romantic platonic concept of human sexuality that inform all his love stories. In many respects Sharatchandra resembles his formidable European forbear, Jean Jacques Rousseau of Enlightenment France. The concluding chapter of Sil's biographical study introduces this pioneering comparison between the two men—a veritable tour de force.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Preface
  3. Translation, Transliteration, Orthography, and Bengali Calendar
  4. 1 Political and Social Condition of Late Colonial India
  5. 2 Sharatchandra’s Childhood and Early Youth
  6. 3 The Making of a Literary Career The Beginnings
  7. 4 Sharatchandra in Rangoon A Nonresident Nobody from Bengal
  8. 5 Literary Career during Rangoon Days
  9. 6 Return of the Prodigal Son
  10. 7 Treasures of the Invincible Wordsmith [Aparājeya Kathāśilpī]
  11. 8 Sharatchandra’s Caste and Gender Consciousness
  12. 9 Bankimchandra-Rabindranath- Sharatchandra
  13. 10 Sharatchandra’s Political Ideas and Activities
  14. 11 Sharatchandra’s Enduring Popularity
  15. 12 Sharatchandra and Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Tour de Force
  16. Glossary
  17. Bibliography
  18. About the Author