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Eastern Bengal Ballads 1926-28

1928

This particular phase of a lover's trance and laments may be traced from the time of the Ramayana where Ram's search for Sita produces an intensely pathetic interest -- the woods, the rivers, the hills and rivulets were address-,eel by the lover in a trance and the whole Nature seemed to revond to the appeal of the hero. [...] GENERAL INTRODUCTION xi Nilarobari intemoven with light blue threads, showing itself in the IuH gli. ry of the colour of the J11111/1■10 the Udsitara the morning-star ' and the Megha-durnhoor or the fragments of ' and many such art. [...] When she describes her early life with its joys and happiness in her quiet home surrounded by mango and blackberry trees, with its remi- niscences of the hathing- ghat from where the eternal laughter of the waves" reverberate,; on the shore, the tender affection of her younger brother and the periodical religious festivities of the gav village-life, the appeal becomes irresis- tible and the reader [...] The periodical harvests storedXX GENERAL I NTH° DUCT[ON in the granaries, the methods or transplantation then in vogue in the contrx, the different crops of the season's and the routine-work in wliieh one helped the other with affec- tion and tenderness, are pictured in detail, ;-Lnd all these give the simple poetry and pathos of agricultural life in Bengal. [...] In some of the recensions of the Bengali Mahahharat thpre is a full canto devoted to the deRcription of a fight of Droupadi in the field of Enrukshetra, and this canto, called The Droupadi Yuddha," seems to be a pro-duction of indigenou,.
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Pages
536
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-1 Dinesh Sen view
The Ballad of Manjurma
2-22 unknown view
Coffin-Stealer
23-51 unknown view
The Ballad of Bhelua
52-107 unknown view
The Ballad of Hati Kheda or Capture of Elephants
108-135 unknown view
Ayana Bibi
136-163 unknown view
The Ballad of Kamal the Merchant
164-197 unknown view
Shyam Ray
198-221 unknown view
Chaudhuri’s Larai
222-311 unknown view
Gopini Kirttan
312-361 unknown view
Lament of the Daughter of Shah Shuja
362-373 unknown view
The Lay of the Twelve Shrines
374-387 unknown view
The Fight at Manipur
388-iv unknown view
Index
429-435 unknown view
Appendix
436-437 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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