Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) was perhaps the most important Bengali poet after Tagore. However, the discovery of his unpublished manuscripts and their posthumous publication from the 1980s has gradually introduced a corpus of some eighty short stories and five novels that far exceeds in volume the original poetic canon, and has opened a new window on the literary career of Jibanananda. This volume offers the first ever translation of Jibanananda's early short ...
Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the event which has become known in the British imagination as the ‘Indian Mutiny’ of 1857 in British imagination as the ‘Indian Mutiny’ of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakraverty shows how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and by the demands of ...