LEADER 03740nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910456505903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-13598-1 010 $a9786613135988 010 $a0-231-52022-0 024 7 $a10.7312/band14904 035 $a(CKB)2550000000037244 035 $a(EBL)908816 035 $a(OCoLC)741558687 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541755 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11356815 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541755 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10509358 035 $a(PQKB)11071135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908816 035 $a(DE-B1597)458630 035 $a(OCoLC)979586773 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231520225 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908816 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10470112 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL313598 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000037244 100 $a20090827d2010 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe tale of Hansuli Turn$b[electronic resource] /$fTarashankar Bandyopadhyay ; translated by Ben Conisbee Baer 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (404 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14904-2 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 -- $t2 -- $t3 -- $t4 -- $t5 -- $tFinal -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aA terrifying sound disturbs the peace of Hansuli Turn, a forest village in Bengal, and the community splits as to its meaning. Does it herald the apocalyptic departure of the gods or is there a more rational explanation? The Kahars, inhabitants of Hansuli Turn, belong to an untouchable "criminal tribe" soon to be epically transformed by the effects of World War II and India's independence movement. Their headman, Bonwari, upholds the ethics of an older time, but his fragile philosophy proves no match for the overpowering machines of war. As Bonwari and the village elders come to believe the gods have abandoned them, younger villagers led by the rebel Karali look for other meanings and a different way of life.As the two factions fight, codes of authority, religion, sex, and society begin to break down, and amid deadly conflict and natural disaster, Karali seizes his chance to change his people's future. Sympathetic to the desires of both older and younger generations, Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay depicts a difficult transition in which a marginal caste fragments and mutates under the pressure of local and global forces. The novel's handling of the language of this rural society sets it apart from other works of its time, while the village's struggles anticipate the dilemmas of rural development, ecological and economic exploitation, and dalit militancy that would occupy the center of India's post-Independence politics.Negotiating the colonial depredations of the 1939-45 war and the oppressions of an agrarian caste system, the Kahars both fear and desire the consequences of a revolutionized society and the loss of their culture within it. Lyrically rendered by one of India's great novelists, this story of one people's plight dramatizes the anxieties of a nation and the resistance of some to further marginalization. 606 $aBengali fiction 607 $aBengal (India)$xRural conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBengali fiction. 676 $a891.4/4371 700 $aBandyopa?dhya?y?a$b Ta?ra?s?an?kara$f1898-1971.$01040239 701 $aBaer$b Ben Conisbee$01040240 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456505903321 996 $aThe tale of Hansuli Turn$92462940 997 $aUNINA