Tagores Before Tagore
A Screenplay
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9780199480371
Publication date:
03/01/2018
Hardback
232 pages
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03/01/2018
Hardback
232 pages
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay and Translated by Maharghya Chakraborty
When Dwarakanath Tagore died on 1 August 1846, Jorasanko found itself rattled by a series of upheavals. In each of these episodes, the chief player was his son—and Rabindranath Tagore’s father—Debendranath Tagore. He was a social reformer who founded the Brahmo Dharma. Yet, despite his deeply spiritual nature, he dabbled in crass materialistic matters. Drawing upon Debendranath’s opposing sentiments, Tagores Before Tagore chronicles tales of bankruptcy, litigations, deceit, and domestic squabbles abound, and through these tales emerges a rich cultural history of nineteenth-century Bengal.
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Sibaji Bandyopadhyay and Translated by Maharghya Chakraborty
Description
When Dwarakanath Tagore, the entrepreneur hailed as India’s first ‘bourgeois’, died on 1 August 1846, Jorasanko found itself rattled by a series of upheavals. In each of these episodes, the chief player was his son—and Rabindranath Tagore’s father—Debendranath Tagore. He was a social reformer who founded the Brahmo Dharma. Yet, despite his deeply spiritual nature, he dabbled in crass materialistic matters. Drawing upon Debendranath’s opposing sentiments, Tagores Before Tagore narrates a historical period crucial to the making of indigenous modernity.
Scripted at the insistence of the famed filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, this screenplay, based on true events, chronicles the tumultuous happenings that shook Jorasanko between September 1846 and June 1860, following Dwarakanath’s sudden death. Tales of bankruptcy, litigations, deceit, and domestic squabbles abound, and through these tales emerges a rich cultural history of nineteenth-century Bengal.
About the Author and Translator
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay was professor of cultural studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, and professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He writes poetry, plays, stories, novels, and film scripts in Bengali, and essays in Bengali and English. He has been awarded the Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Award (2016), the Vidyasagar Memorial Award (2010), and the Sisir Kumar Das Memorial Award (2010).
Maharghya Chakraborty is pursuing his doctoral degree at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India. He is an avid cinephile, aspiring to be a writer. He has translated Taslima Nasreen’s Nirbasan into English (Exile, 2016).
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay and Translated by Maharghya Chakraborty
Table of contents
Foreword by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Tagore Family Trees
Dramatis Personae
TAGORES BEFORE TAGORE: A SCREENPLAY
Afterword by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author and the Translator
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay and Translated by Maharghya Chakraborty
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay and Translated by Maharghya Chakraborty
Description
When Dwarakanath Tagore, the entrepreneur hailed as India’s first ‘bourgeois’, died on 1 August 1846, Jorasanko found itself rattled by a series of upheavals. In each of these episodes, the chief player was his son—and Rabindranath Tagore’s father—Debendranath Tagore. He was a social reformer who founded the Brahmo Dharma. Yet, despite his deeply spiritual nature, he dabbled in crass materialistic matters. Drawing upon Debendranath’s opposing sentiments, Tagores Before Tagore narrates a historical period crucial to the making of indigenous modernity.
Scripted at the insistence of the famed filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, this screenplay, based on true events, chronicles the tumultuous happenings that shook Jorasanko between September 1846 and June 1860, following Dwarakanath’s sudden death. Tales of bankruptcy, litigations, deceit, and domestic squabbles abound, and through these tales emerges a rich cultural history of nineteenth-century Bengal.
About the Author and Translator
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay was professor of cultural studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, and professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He writes poetry, plays, stories, novels, and film scripts in Bengali, and essays in Bengali and English. He has been awarded the Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Award (2016), the Vidyasagar Memorial Award (2010), and the Sisir Kumar Das Memorial Award (2010).
Maharghya Chakraborty is pursuing his doctoral degree at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India. He is an avid cinephile, aspiring to be a writer. He has translated Taslima Nasreen’s Nirbasan into English (Exile, 2016).
Table of contents
Foreword by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Tagore Family Trees
Dramatis Personae
TAGORES BEFORE TAGORE: A SCREENPLAY
Afterword by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author and the Translator
