Debi Chaudharani

Chatterji, Bankimchandra:
Debī Chaudharāṇī, or The Wife Who Came Home / Bankimcandra Chatterji. Transl. with an introduction and critical apparatus by Julius J. Lipner. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xiii, 276 S.
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Außerhalb Indiens:
Idem. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xiii, 276 S.
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Beschreibung
First published as a serial in the monthly journal Bangadarsan in 1882, Debi Chaudhurani had a profound impact in invoking India’s nationalistic spirit against British colonial rule.
   Set in late eighteenth-century Bengal, Debi Chaudhurani -- the second in a trilogy of novels -- revolves around Debi and her transformation from a dutiful young Brahmin housewife rejected by her in-laws to a hardy bandit queen and social benefactress. Later Debi returns to her husband’s home in the role of a virtuous wife and mother symbolizing the emergent motherland, glorified famously in Anandamath. Here Bankimchandra dwells on a woman’s conduct in private and public spheres as she copes with existing realities to find a room of her own. Further, the novel focuses on caste, and what it means to be an ideal Brahmin housewife.
   Translated with an Introduction and Critical Apparatus by Julius J. Lipner, this volume places the novel in the socio-political context of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century colonial India. Detailed explanatory notes and maps add value to this edition. The ideas expressed in the novel -- considered revolutionary at the time -- are still relevant in present times. [Oxford University Press (India)]

Inhalt
Abbreviations. xiii
Introduction. 1
Debī Chaudhurāṇī, or The Wife Who Came Home. 39
Critical Apparatus. 155
Appendices:
   A: Earlier version of Part 1, Chapters 9-17. 239
   B: Earlier version of Part 2, Chapters 1-12. 257
Select Bibliography. 267
Index to the Introduction and Critical Apparatus. 271
Index to Debī Chaudhurāṇī (including variants). 275

Autor
BANKIMCANDRA CHATTERJI [Baṅkimacandra Caṭṭopādhyāya] (1838–1894) firmly established prose as a literary vehicle in nineteenth-century Bengal and helped create a new school of fiction in India. Author of classics like Mrnalini and Debi Chaudhurani, his novel Rajmohan’s Wife is considered one of the earliest works in Indian English fiction.

Übersetzer
JULIUS J. LIPNER, Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion at the University of Cambridge. Profile page.

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