Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (198 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520228820
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0520228839
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0520935853
,
1282359509
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9780520228825
,
9780520228832
,
9780520935853
,
9781282359505
Originaltitel:
Cha mana atha guntha
Inhalt:
This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati--one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages--is both a literary work and a historical document. A text that makes use--and deliberate misuse--of both British and Indian literary conventions, Six Acres and a Third provides a unique "view from below" of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, the novel focuses on a small plot of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected by the way this property is sold and resold, as new legal arrangements emerge and new types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape. This graceful translation faithfully conveys the rare and compelling account of how the more unsavory aspects of colonialism affected life in rural India
Inhalt:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Six Acres and a Third -- Glossary
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
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In English, translated from Oriya
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Senapati, Fakir Mohan, 1843-1918 Six acres and a third Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2005
Sprache:
Englisch
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