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Nil Darpan (Bengali: নীল দর্পণ, The Indigo Mirror) is a Bengali-language play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859. The play was essential to Nil Vidroha, better known as the Indigo Revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields to protest against exploitative working conditions during the period of Company rule. [1]
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Indigo revolt (1858) in Bengali was the revolt of the indigo farmers against the indigo planters. It was one year after the Sepoy Revolt , Bengal saw one more important revolt in its history. The play was published from Dhaka and soon after its publication it ignited a major argument in the newspapers. [ 5 ]
Several other Bengali prose fiction published earlier are also considered as claimants of the first Bengali novels. These include: Nabababubilas (1825) by Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay and Karuna O Phulmonir Bibaran (1852) by Hana Catherine Mullens .The 1865 novel Durgeshnandini written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is considered the first ...
It was first published as a book by Katyayani Book Stall. Presently the edition available is the one published by Mitra & Ghosh Publishers Pvt. Ltd. It was first published in May, 1976 and the present paperback classic edition is the 24th print which is dated January, 2010. This edition was edited by Shri Taradas Bandyopadhyay, son of the author.
The Krittivasi Ramayan is thought to have been the single most popular single book in the whole of pre-modern Bengal, and remains in widespread circulation in the twenty-first century. [ 7 ] : 144 The eighteenth-century Bengali raja Krishnachandra Roy attempted to ban people from reading it in an attempt to promote the Sanskritisation of ...
English book written by Paricharan was popular in Bengal for long time. But now, in this world of Globalisation,this book doesn't have any value. But Barnaparichay is still used as a first primer book to teach Bengali to kids in Bengal. Now colorised versions of book are also available.
His Bengali re-telling of the Mahābhārata, known as Kāśīdāsī Môhābhārôt, is a popular and influential version of the Mahābhārata legend in Bengal. Although the entire work is intra-textually ascribed to him, most scholars agree that he composed only the first four of the eighteen books ( parvas ).