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Imprint: Orient Paperbacks
Publication Date: 11 Jan, 2006
Pages Count: 168 Pages
Weight: 160.00 Grams
Dimensions: 5.00 x 8.00 Inches
Series: Library of South Asian Literature
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About the Book:
An extraordinary political novel.
The plot, with its epical dimensions, is based on the sanyasi rebellion in Bengal in the late 18th century. The sanyasis fought the British against all odds, whom they regarded as an arch enemy of the country, and responsible for the terrible famine of 1772.
In this novel Bankim also wrote Bande Mataram - Hail Motherland - and gave India its first national song, which later became a rallying call of the national freedom movement.
Bankim Chandra Chatterji was a supreme artist, a consummate story-teller...it is indeed the most peculiar of all works of Bankim, yet in no other work of his is Bankim so closely identified.
...is a legend of the struggle for freedom and the passion behind it seems to reflect Bankim's vision of free India.
It is legend in the tradition of the Mahabharata, where dialogue is as important as the story.
Of all his (Bankim's) works, by far the most important from its astonishing political consequences was Anadamath.
One of India's 60 best books ever.