Anandamath, or the Sacred Brotherhood

Name: Anandamath, or the Sacred Brotherhood
Brand: Oxford University Press
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This is a translation of a historically important Bengali novel. Published in 1882, Chatterji's Anandamath helped create the atmosphere and the symbolism for the nationalist movement leading to Indian independence in 1947. It contains the famous hymn Vande Mataram ('I revere the Mother'), which has become India's official National Song. Set in Bengal at the time of the famine of 1770, the novel reflects tensions and oppositions within Indian culture between Hindus and Muslims, ruler and ruled, indigenous people and foreign overlords, jungle and town, Aryan and non-Aryan, celibacy and sexuality. By recreating the past of Bengal, Chatterji hoped to create a new present that involved a new interpretation of the past. Julius Lipner not only provides the first complete and satisfactory English translation of this important work, but supplies an extensive Introduction contextualizing the novel and its cultural and political history.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 330
Release Date:: 2005-08-23
Publication Date:: 2005-05-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0195178572
ISBN13:: 9780195178579
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 688 g
Height:: 157 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 24 cm

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