Volume-I, Issue-V, May 2025
Volume-I, Issue-V, May, 2025 |
Received: 22.05.2025 | Accepted: 25.05.2025 | ||
Published Online: 31.05.2025 | Page No: 1107-1122 | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.05W.111 | |||
স্বাধীনতা-উত্তর বাংলা উপন্যাস (নির্বাচিত): প্রসঙ্গ উনিশ শতকের কৃষক জীবনচর্যা ও নীল বিদ্রোহ গোপাল ঘোষ, গবেষক, বিদ্যাসাগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, মেদিনীপুর, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Post-Independence Bengali Novels (Selected): Context of 19th Century Peasant Life and the Indigo Rebellion Gopal Ghosh, Research Scholar, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, west bnegal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
The most deprived and neglected class in predominantly agricultural India is the peasant community. This is true in the context of colonial India or 21st century India as well. However, the research on the life of these farmers began during the colonial period. Especially in the context of the 19th century, the opinion of Bengali scholars about farmers is quite significant. Peary Chand Mitra, Akshay Kumar Dutta, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Dinabandhu Mitra, Harish Chandra Mukherjee were all sympathetic to the farmers. Especially Dinabandhu Mitra’s Nildarpan (1860) has presented a realistic account of the life of the indigo farmers of Bengal. Again, the rebellion that the indigo farmers waged against this helplessness is known as the Indigo revolt. Incidentally, the life of the 19th century farmers and the Indigo revolt has become particularly relevant in the post-independence Bengali novel genre. The lives of farmers and the events of the Indigo Rebellion have become the controlling force in the story-building of Bibhutibhushan Banerjee’s Ichamati (1950), Dinesh Chandra Chatterjee’s Neel Ghurni (1378 Bangabdo) and Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Sei Samoy (Part 1-1981, Part 2-1982). I would like to shed light on these novels written over a period of time, keeping in mind the lives of farmers and the events of the Indigo Rebellion. | ||
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