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Six Acres and a Third The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India

By:

Senapati, Fakir Mohan

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press Dec. 2005Description: 222 P. 20 cmSubject(s):

English Literature

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Six Acres and a ThirdDDC classification:

891.45634 22 SEN-S 2005 200499

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Summary: Annotation This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati--one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages--is both a literary work and a historical document. A text that makes use--and deliberate misuse--of both British and Indian literary conventions,<i>Six Acres and a Third</i>provides a unique "view from below" of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, the novel focuses on a small plot of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected by the way this property is sold and resold, as new legal arrangements emerge and new types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape. This graceful translation faithfully conveys the rare and compelling account of how the more unsavory aspects of colonialism affected life in rural India.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	School of Creative Arts Library Book Cart	891.45634 SEN-S 2005 200499 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		200499

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Annotation This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati--one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages--is both a literary work and a historical document. A text that makes use--and deliberate misuse--of both British and Indian literary conventions,<i>Six Acres and a Third</i>provides a unique "view from below" of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, the novel focuses on a small plot of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected by the way this property is sold and resold, as new legal arrangements emerge and new types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape. This graceful translation faithfully conveys the rare and compelling account of how the more unsavory aspects of colonialism affected life in rural India.

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