Debi Chaudhurani, Or The Wife Who Came Home
Author: Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2009-10-02
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0195388364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bankim Chatterji was perhaps the foremost novelist and intellectual mediating western ideas to India in the latter half of the 19th century. Debi Chaudhurani is a didactic work that champions a particular interpretation of Hindu dharma and wifely duties reflective of the late 19th-century Calcutta context in which it was written. Lipner's idiomatic translation is enhanced by his detailed commentary on the original Bengali text and by a readable introduction that sets the novel and its ideas in context.