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Govinda S

by Lal Behari Dey

A portrait of Bengali peasant life

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A portrait of Bengali peasant life

Set among Bengali peasants, Lal Behari Dey’s 1874 novel takes the life of a raiyat—an agricultural tenant—as its subject. The description presents the book as an effort to portray people who were poor and oppressed with dignity and humanity. Its historical setting and focus on peasant experience place it within fiction concerned with social life in Bengal.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in nineteenth-century Bengali fiction and its social settings.
  • Those seeking literature centered on peasant life and the experiences of the poor and oppressed.

Themes

Bengali peasant lifePoverty and oppressionHuman dignityNineteenth-century Bengal

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Book overview

Govinda Samanta: Or the History of a Bengal Raiyat (1874) is a novel by Lal Behari Dey. Inspired by a lifetime dedicated to serving the poor and oppressed, Lal Behari Dey wrote Govinda Samanta in order to portray the life of Bengali peasants in a positive, human light. Praised by Charles Darwin, awarded a substantial prize by a prominent Bengali zamindar, Lal Behari's novel is a masterpiece of Bengali literature. "It was considerably past midnight one morning in the sultry month of April, when a human figure was seen moving in a street of K

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