Anandamath or The Sacred Brotherhood - A Translation of Bankimcandra Chatterji's Anandamath, with Introduction and Critical Apparatus (Paperback)

Winner of the A.K. Ramanujan Prize for Annotated Translation
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. It is both a political and a religious work. 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. Also included are notes offering the Bengali or Sanskrit terms for certain words, as well as explanatory notes for the specialized lay reader or scholar.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	May 2005
Authors:	Bankimcandra Chatterji
Translators:	Julius J. Lipner (Professor in Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion and Chairman of the Faculty Board of Divinity)
Dimensions:	233 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-517858-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Promotions
LSN:	0-19-517858-0
Barcode:	9780195178586

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