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Chandidas: Bose Nitin; 1934
1934
But there was a.mischievous 'but'underneath his high-polished manners and religious-mindedness the zeminder was a debauch of the lowest type and a tyrant of the highest order ! He was a devil incarnate. [...] of Sarju his able and cunning lieutenant the reminder could perpetrate the blackest crime with impunity—and then smile by complacently ! Baiju the wisher-man of the village lived happily with his 'simple wife Kusum and his sister Rami. [...] Day after clay in the compound of the temple Rami was to be seen sweeping the.temple-yard and day after day within the temple Chanddas was found to be going on with his priestly duties. [...] Ultimately he was forced to concede to the proposals of a penance 'Prayaschitya' for for what else than his connection with the washer woman ? Rami heard of Chandidas on the point of doing the penance-but she could not believe it—it was impossible for her to do it 1 Anyway she wanted to get the truth direct from Chandidas. [...] The Brahmins shuddered Gopinatli stood baffled and roared within himself and Chandidas stood up leaving the penance unfinished took Rami in his embrace and then wc nt out of the temple out of the village—out of the rigid and unkind conventions of the society.
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