Lal Behari Dey

Govinda Sámanta (eBook, ePUB)

Or The History of a Bengal Ráiyat

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a small village in rural India, a young boy learns the traditions of the Bengali people through the stories of his elders. Raised among the peasantry, he lives a proud life of hard work and simplicity, knowing hunger and struggle from his earliest days. Govinda Samanta: Or the History of a Bengal Raiyat is a novel by Lal Behari Dey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513288352
• Artikelnr.: 61843512

Autorenporträt

Lal Behari Dey (1824-1892) was a Bengali journalist and Christian missionary. Born near Bardhaman, Lal Behari moved to Calcutta with his father in 1834 to study with Reverend Alexander Duff. Over the next decade, he converted to Christianity and studied English, eventually publishing a prizewinning essay titled The Falsity of the Hindu Religion (1842). From 1865 to 1867, he served as a missionary and minister for the Free Church of Scotland before finding work as an English professor in Berhampore and Hooghly. A devoted student of English literature, he published Govinda Samanta: Or the History of a Bengal Raiyat (1874) and Folk Tales of Bengal: Life's Secret (1883), earning a reputation as a leading Bengali novelist and advocate for the poor and oppressed.