The Definitive Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

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Item Code: NAP577
Publisher: Rupa Publication Pvt. Ltd.
Language: English
Edition: 2018
ISBN: 9789353043575
Pages: 551
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.0 inch X 5.0 inch
Weight 400 gm
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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, or Chatterjee, the author of our National Song Vande Maataram is considered to be the pioneer of the revival of Bengali literature in the nineteenth century. His novels firmly established prose as a literary vehicle for the Bengali language and helped create in India a school of fiction on the European model. His work influenced thousands of writers including stalwarts like Rabindranath Tagore, Surendranath Dutt, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and many others.

The Definitive Bankim contains his major works like The Poison Tree, Rajmohans' Wife, Durgeshnandini, Kapalkundala and the English translation of the national song, Vande Maataram in verse form by Sri Aurobindo. Admired as a nationalist writer, Bankim Chandra Chatterer’s masterpieces have gone beyond the limited popularity of regional readers, and have been translated to wide acclaim.

Contents

 

  Vande Mataram  
1 Mother, I Bow to Thee ! 3
  The Poison Tree a Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal  
1 Nagendra's Journey by Boat 7
2 Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before 12
3 Of Many Subjects 16
4 Tara Charan 20
5 OH! Lotus-Eyed, Who Art Thou? 23
6 The Reader has Cause for Great Displeasure 28
7 Haridasi Boisnavi 30
8 The Babu 36
9 Surja Mukhi's 40
10 The Sprout 43
11 Caught at Last 49
12 Hira 52
13 No! 55
14 Like to Like 59
15 The Forlorn One 63
16 Hira's Envy 68
17 Hira's Quarrel the Bud of the Poison Tree 72
18 The Caged Bird 77
19 Descent 81
20 Good News 84
21 Surja Mukhi and Kamal Mani 89
22 What is the Poison Tree? 93
23 The Search 95
24 Every Sort of Happiness is Fleeting 98
25 The Fruit of the Poison Tree 100
26 The Signs of Love 103
27 By the Roadside 107
28 Is There Hope? 110
29 Hira's Poison Tree has Blossomed 114
30 News of Surja Mukhi 116
31 Though All Else Dies, Suffering Dies Not 121
32 The Fruit of Hira's Poison Tree 126
33 Hira's Grandmother 128
34 A Dark House: A Dark Life 131
35 The Return Explanation 133
36 Explanation 139
37 The Simpleton and the Serpent 141
38 The Catastrophe 144
39 Kunda's Tongue is Loosened 146
40 The End 148
  Glossary 150
  Rajmohan's Wife a Novel  
1 The Drawers of Water 155
2 The Two Cousins 160
3 The Truant's Return Home 163
4 The Rise and Progress of a Zemindar Family 166
5 A Letter-A Visit to the Zenana 173
6 Midnight Plotting 178
7 Love Can Conquer Fear 184
8 Forewarned and Forearmed 191
9 We Meet to Part 197
10 The Return 201
11 When Thieves Fall Out 205
12 The Friends and the Stranger 210
13 The Protectress 214
14 Between Rival Chambers 219
15 Consultations and Council 226
16 What Befell Our Hero 231
17 The Vigilance of Love 234
18 Captors and Captive 238
19 Madhav and Tara 245
20 Some Women are the Equals of Some Men 250
21 The Last Chapter in Life's Book—And in This 253
  Conclusion 256
  Durgeshnandini or The Chieftain's Daughter  
  Part I  
1 The Temple 261
2 Acquaintance 265
3 The Mogal and The Pathan 269
4 The Youthful General 272
5 Farmandaran 275
6 Abhiram Swami's Counsel 279
7 Carelessness 282
8 Bimala's Consultation 286
9 The Luminary of the Race 288
10 Preparation After Consultation 291
11 Ashmani's Embassy 295
12 Ashmani's Rendezvous 298
13 Ashmani's Amour 302
14 Abduction of Diggaja 305
15 Diggaja's Courage 308
16 In Presence of Saileshwara 313
17 Vira Panchami 317
18 The Clever Person and Her Foil 322
19 The Lover and His Lass 327
20 From Room to Room 331
21 The Rencounter 334
  PART II 341
1 Aesha 345
2 The Flower-Embosomed Stone 348
3 Aren't You Tilottama? 351
4 The Lady of the Veil 355
5 The Widow 358
6 Bimala's Letter 362
7 Bimala's Letter (Concluded) 368
8 The Recovery 373
9 Diggaja's Tidings 377
10 Sweet Image, Away! 381
11 Changing the Room 386
12 The Singular Ornament 391
13 Presenting the Ring 395
14 The Trance 398
15 The Declaration 403
16 Your Slave's at Your Feet, Lord 407
17 The Last Moments 410
18 Hostility 414
19 Aesha's Letter 416
20 The Flickering Lamp 420
21 The Consequence the Dream Belies 423
22 The Conclusion  
  Kapalkundala  
  PART I  
1 At the Estuary of the Ganges 431
2 On the Coast 435
3 In Solitude 438
4 On the Top of a Sand-hill 441
5 On the sea-side 444
6 In the Kapalik's Company 448
7 In Quest 453
8 In Shelter 454
9 In the Holy Shrine 461
  PART II  
1 On the Highway 465
2 At the Inn 468
3 Meeting with the Beautiful Woman 472
4 In the Palanquin 475
5 In His Native Land 476
6 In Domestic Seclusion 479
  PART III  
1 In the Long Past 487
2 At the Parting of Ways 492
3 In Her Rival's House 495
4 In the Palace 500
5 In Her Own Apartments 503
6 Down at the Feet 506
7 On the Outskirt of the City 510
  PART IV  
1 In Bedchamber 515
2 In the Wood 519
3 In Dream 524
4 At the Tryst 527
5 On the Doorstep 529
6 In Conversation 532
7 Greeting with Co-wife 534
8 Homeward 539
9 Where Last Rites are Paid to the Departed Humanity 542

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