01926nam a22002297a 4500003000900000005001700009008004100026020001800067020001500085040003700100100003300137245002600170264004000196300002800236520112900264650005901393650005201452655003101504942001401535999001701549952013001566PH-MaWHO20250521141601.0250521b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780140268522  a0140268529  aDLCbengcWPRO LibrarydDLCerda  aGangopadhyay, Sunil.9675765  aThose days: a novel.   aNew York: bPenguin Books, c1997.   a588 pages ; c19.5 cm.   aThe 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.  aBengal (India)vHistoryxFictiony19th century9675766  2Social life and customsaIndiaxFiction9675767  aHistorical Fiction9674578  2nmlcMONO  c18267d18267  00102nml40708FICaWPRObWPROcMezd2025-05-21edonationl0oFIC SUN ThosepFIC0194r2025-05-21 14:16:39w2025-05-21yMONO