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Six Acres and a Third The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India
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Six Acres and a Third The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India Hardcover - 2005

by Senapati, Fakir Mohan


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This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati--one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages--is both a literary work and a historical document. A text that makes use--and deliberate misuse--of both British and Indian literary conventions, Six Acres and a Third provides a unique "view from below" of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, the novel focuses on a small plot of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected by the way this property is sold and resold, as new legal arrangements emerge and new types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape. This graceful translation faithfully conveys the rare and compelling account of how the more unsavory aspects of colonialism affected life in rural India.

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Ramachandra Mangaraj was a zamindar-a rural landlord-and a prominent moneylender as well, though his transactions in grain far exceeded those in cash.

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  • Title Six Acres and a Third The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India
  • Author Senapati, Fakir Mohan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date December 5, 2005
  • ISBN 9780520228825

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Poet, novelist, administrator, social reformer, printer, businessman, and patriot, Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843-1918) was born in a Khandayat family in a small village near Balasore town in Orissa. Satya P. Mohanty is Professor of English at Cornell University.
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