The Penance

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Prayaschita (The Penance) is the last of Fakir Mohan Senapati’s four novels and the third and the last in his ‘trilogy of crime and justice’, to use the epithet coined by the eminent Senapati scholar John Boulton. The first two novels of the trilogy are Chhamana Athaguntha (1902, Six Acres and a Third) and Mamu (1913, The Maternal Uncle). Prayaschita was published in 1915, just three years before the death of the novelist. The novel is of value for the light it casts on Fakir Mohan Senapati’s increasingly dark and tragic vision of life lived under the shadow of colonialism. He wrote it to defend the traditional values of the Hindu way of life which he saw as being gravely threatened by the alien value system of the British that had made huge inroads into the Indian society. In fact, it is a telling assault on the English education that is perforce mounted in the form of a defense of the traditional Indian society.

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About the Author

Fakir Mohan Senapati (January 13, 1843-June 14, 1918) was an Indian novelist, short story writer, poet, philosopher and social reformer. Due to his contribution in establishing the distinct identity of Odia, a language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha, he is regarded as the father of modern Odia literature. His four novels, written between 1897 and 1915, reflect the socio-cultural conditions of Odisha during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Written in 1898, his short story Rebati is widely recognized as the first Odia short story.

Snehaprava Das is an eminent poet and translator. She has translated several Odia classics including the first Odia novel Padmamali by Umesh Chandra Sarkar, the Odia novel Bibasini by Ramshankar Ray, and Pandit Gopabandhu Das’s Kara Kabita and Bandira Atmakatha in English. She has also translated the short story collection Refrigerator re hajare dina of Manoj. Kumar Panda and Central Sahitya Academy winning novella Prapti of Paramita Satpathy in English. She has three poetry collections Dusk Diary, Alone and Other Poems and Songs of Solitude to her credit. She teaches English literature in various colleges of Odisha and lives in Bhubaneswar, India.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Eagle Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 24 October 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1645600335
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1645600336
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 318 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.42 x 21.59 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
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