TY - BOOK AU - Caṭṭopādhyāẏa,Baṅkimacandra AU - Lipner,Julius TI - Debī Chaudhurāṇī, or, The wife who came home SN - 9780199738243 AV - PK1718.C43 D39 2009eb U1 - 891.4/434 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Baṅkimacandra, KW - Debī Caudhurāṇī (Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Baṅkimacandra) KW - fast KW - Brahman women KW - India KW - Fiction KW - Married women KW - Brigands and robbers KW - FICTION KW - Action & Adventure KW - bisacsh KW - Social conditions KW - 18th century KW - Inde KW - Conditions sociales KW - 18e siècle KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - Electronic books KW - Action and adventure fiction KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Adventure fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and indexes; Abbreviations; Introduction; Debi Chaudhurani, or The Wife Who Came Home; Dedication, Epigraphs, Notice; Part I: Chapters 1-16; Part II: Chapters 1-12; Part III: Chapters 1-14; Critical Apparatus; Dedication, Epigraphs, Notice; Part I: Chapters 1-16; Part II: Chapters 1-12; Part III: Chapters 1-14; Appendices; Appendix A: Earlier Version of Part I, Chapters 9-17; Appendix B: Earlier Version of Part II, Chapters 1-12; Select Bibliography; Index to the Introduction and Critical Apparatus; Index to Debi Chaudhurani (Including Variants) N2 - This is the second in a trilogy of works by the famed Bengali novelist Bankimcandra Chatterji (1838-1894), and the second to be translated by Julius Lipner. The first, Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood was published by OUP in 2005. Bankim Chatterji was perhaps the foremost novelist and intellectual mediating western ideas to India in the latter half of the 19th century. Debi Chaudhurani is a didactic work that champions a particular interpretation of Hindu dharma and wifely duties reflective of the late 19th-century Calcutta context in which it was written. But the story is also compelling UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=292785 ER -