Bankim chandra chatterjee biography of christopher
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Ratnottama Sengupta, who has edited an encyclopaedia on culture and is a renowned arts journalist, gives us the role &#;kanthas&#; (hand-embroidered mats, made of old rags) played in India’s freedom struggle
“Chhenra kanthay shuey, sinhasaner swapna?!”
(Sleeping on a rag, and dreaming of the throne?!)
Sarcasm dripped from every word when the Bengali proverb was missiled at a person who might have ignored his limited means when planning a revolution. But revolution indeed was wrought by the womenfolk of Bengal in the late s and early s when they discarded the brightly coloured drapes from factories across the seas and opted for the desi taant or handloom cotton saris that were less vibrant, even coarse. They were rising in response to Chaaran Kavi Mukunda Das, the itinerant singer who appealed to them through ballads such as “Chhere dao reshmi churi, aar poro na Banga nari (Leave behind silken threads, do not wear these on Bengali women)”. On the streets, in response to Gandhi’s call for Non-cooperation, men were burning clothes from the mills of Britain. The womenfolk, though confined to the inner courtyard, were not to be left behind in the struggle for the dignity that is freedom.
Jnanpith winner Ashapurna Devi, in Subarnalata – the
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BANKIM’S RAJANI: A STUDY INTO HEALTH AND HUMANITY
1. INTRODUCTION
Health as an epistemic discourse has been part of India’s creative and critical praxis. Though not entirely clinical, but in its literary and cultural manifestations health has often stirred public imaginations in India about human body, sickness, disease, deformities, including their causes and cures. We tend to discern a historical progression of such health discourses from its mythological incarnations in the great Indian epics and scriptures till the introduction of English education and the subsequent rise of western knowledge/clinical ideas concerning health and humanities.
Hardly a half century after the introduction of Macaulay’s Minute on English education in , Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay etches out a brilliant literary testimony to the emerging health concerns in India, particularly in the colonial Bengal in Chattopadhyay’s Rajani (published in Bengali year , English year ) documenting a cultural perspective into blindness ensues further creative discourses on health, hygiene, disability and their subsequent cultural manifestations and constructions. Chattopadhyay orchestrates both cultural and clinical resonances of oriental health consciousness through the blind
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Bankim’s ‘Bharat’ -Pro-British, Anti-Muslim Courier Pro-Brahminical
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