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Six Acres and a Third: The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India Paperback - 2005

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Author: Fakir Mohan Senapati
ISBN: 9780520228832

by Fakir Mohan Senapati; Rabi Shankar Mishra (Translator); Satya Mohanty (Translator)

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From the publisher

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and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages-is both a literary work and a historical document.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

First line

Ramachandra Mangaraj was a zamindar-a rural landlord-and a prominent moneylender as well, though his transactions in grain far exceeded those in cash.

From the rear cover

"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

Details

Title Six Acres and a Third: The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India
Author Fakir Mohan Senapati; Rabi Shankar Mishra (Translator); Satya Mohanty (Translator)
Binding Paperback
Edition First edition
Pages 222
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of California Press
Date 2005-12-05
Features Glossary, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780520228832 / 0520228839
Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
Dimensions 8.22 x 5.62 x 0.56 in (20.88 x 14.27 x 1.42 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005015750
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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.