Six acres and a third : the classic nineteenth-century novel about colonial India / [written by] Fakir Mohan Senapati; translated from Oriya by Rabi Shankar Mishra ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Senapati, Fakir Mohan, 1843-1918.

Contributor:

Mishra, Rabi Shankar.

Standardized Title:

Cha māṇa āṭha guṇṭha. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indo-Iranian literature.

South Asia--History.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Los Angeles : University of California Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages-is both a literary work and a historical document.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 1830's, 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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Introduction

Six Acres and a Third

GLOSSARY

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Originally published: 1901.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612359507

9781282359505

1282359509

9781598758078

1598758071

9780520935853

0520935853

9781423731337

1423731336

OCLC:

475955483