Six Acres and A Third

Informationen zum Autor Poet! novelist! administrator! social reformer! printer! businessman! and patriot! Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843-1918) was born in a Khandayat family in a small village near Balasore town in Orissa. Satya P. Mohanty is Professor of English at Cornell University. Klappentext “The publication of Fakir Mohan Senapati's first novel Six Acres and a Third in English translation will be a significant event for not only Indian literature, but world literature. Along with Rabindranath Tagore's Gora, Senapati's Six Acres and a Third is a foundational text in Indian literary history.”—U.R. Anantha Murthy, author of Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man Zusammenfassung Provides a 'view from below' of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, this title 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 legal arrangements emerge and types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape.

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• Authors: F.M. Senapati, Fakir Mohan Senapati, Senapati Fakir Mohan
• Assisted by: Satya Mohanty (Introduction), Mohanty Satya (Introduction), Rabi Shankar Mishra (Translation), Shankar Mishra (Translation), Mishra Rabi Shankar (Translation), Satya Mohanty (Translation), Satya P. Mohanty (Translation), Mohanty Satya (Translation), Jatindra N. Nayak (Translation), Nayak Jatindra N. (Translation), Paul St.Pierre (Translation), Paul St.-Pierre (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2005
• EAN: 9780520228832
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22883-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 207 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary