Sabitri Roy’s trilogy, Paka Dhaner Gan, translated for the first time into English, provides as epic panorama of rural Bengal of the late 1930s and the 1940s, encompassing the freedom movement, war, and the Tebhaga movement, the peasants’ uprising against unjust taxes by the zamindars or landlords. Spanning generations, this story shows how the struggle changed rural Bengal. The peasants and their leaders took ideas of equality into the fields, sometimes ...
