Six Acres and a Third: The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India by Fakir Mohan Senapati, Rabi Shankar Mishra (Translator), Jatindra N. Nayak (Translator), Satya Mohanty (Introduction) - 2005-12-05

University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dust jacket. Vg+ condition. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. 222 p. Orig. published: 1901.

University of California Press, 2005-12-05. Hardcover. Good.

Berkeley. 2006. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket As Issued. Remainder Mark On Top Edge. 0520228820. Translated from the Oriya by Rabi Shankar Mishra, Satya P. Mohanty, Jatindra K. Nayak, & Paul St-Pierre. 223 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature India. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages-is both a literary work and a historical document.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, Six Acres and a Third 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… Read More