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Publisher: Rupa Publication Pvt. Ltd. |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 551 | |
| Cover: Paperback | |
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8.0 inch X 5.0 inch |
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Weight 400 gm |
| Edition: 2018 | |
| ISBN: 9789353043575 | |
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NAP577 |
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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.
| 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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