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Rangbhumi (Hardcover)
Munshi Premchand; Translated by Christopher King
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Premchand is one of the most outstanding figures in
twentieth-century Hindi literature. His novels and short stories
dealing with the lives of everyday heroes have attained the status
of classics. His works continue to be rediscovered and to captivate
new generations of readers in India and abroad. The inhumanity of
caste hierarchies and the plight of women stirred his indignation
and remained constant themes through his works. Of his many novels,
Rangbhumi (Battleground, 1924-5) depicts most graphically the
devastation of peasant society and agriculture under colonial rule.
Premchand treads the very tricky ground of tensions between the
rulers and the ruled in this novel. Here, the ruled are the Indians
and the rulers are an amalgam of the whites, the Indian landowners,
and the Indian Christians. Rangbhumi spans the time between the
1920s and 1930s in pre-Independence India. It captures and
celebrates the unassailable spirit of the common man, especially
the farming community, whic h knows no defeat or submission, as its
spirit is always on the mend, even as it is perceived to be finally
crushed.
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