The Kahar Chronicle

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3606691
AutoresRajat Kanta Ray (Presidency University, autor correspondente)
Ano1987
Volume21
Fascículo4
Páginas711-749
Data de publicação1987-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoModern Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0026749x0000929x
OpenAlexW2134100150
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas6

Untouchable agricultural servants in the Indian countryside are among the lowliest people on earth. Such illiterate folk leave no written record to enable historians to comprehend their world from their own angle of vision. To write their history from below, historians have to search for contemporaneous observations which-even though made by an outsider-show some degree of empathy with their consciousness. The gifted novelist is able to enter recesses of the mind which elude the most acute scientific investigator. Among the several Bengali novels which have taken for their theme the wretched of the earth, perhaps the most empathetic is the Kahar Chronicle of Tarashankar Banerjee which thankfully avoids painting their life in unrelieved black. InHansuli Banker Upakatha, the novelist, a small landlord in Birbhum district, descends to the bottom of rural society to give us-as far as possible for a gifted novelist of gentry origin-a view from within

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