01784nam a22002177a 4500 PH-MaWHO 20250521141601.0 250521b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780140268522 0140268529 DLC eng WPRO Library DLC rda Gangopadhyay, Sunil. 675765 Those days: a novel. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. 588 pages ; 19.5 cm. The Bengal Renaissance and the 1857 uprising form the backdrop to Those Days, a saga of human frailties and strength. The story revolves around the immensely wealthy Singha and Mukherjee families, and the intimacy that grows between them. Ganganarayan Singha's love for Bindubasini, the widowed daughter of the Mukherjees, flounders on the rocks of orthodoxy even as his zamindar father, Ramkamal, finds happiness in the arms of the courtesan, Kamala Sundari. Bimbabati, Ramkamal's wife, is left to cope with her loneliness. A central theme of the novel is the manner in which the feudal aristocracy, sunk in ritual and pleasure, slowly awakens to its social obligations. Historical personae interact with fictional protagonists to enrich the narrative. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the reformer; Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the poet; the father and son duo of Dwarkanath and Debendranath Tagore; Harish Mukherjee, the journalist; Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj radical; David Hare and John Bethune, the English educationists—these and a host of others walk the streets of Calcutta again, to bring alive a momentous time. Bengal (India) History Fiction 19th century 675766 Social life and customs India Fiction 675767 Historical Fiction 674578 nml MONO 18267 18267 0 0 nml 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2025-05-21 donation 0 FIC SUN Those FIC0194 2025-05-21 14:16:39 2025-05-21 MONO