Anandamath, or the Sacred Brotherhood

Name: Anandamath, or the Sacred Brotherhood
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ISBN: 9780195178586

ISBN-10: 0195178580

ISBN-13: 9780195178586

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bankimcandra Chatterji, Julius J. Lipner

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This is a translation of a historically important Bengali novel. Published in 1882, Chatterji's Anandamath helped create the atmosphere and the symbolism for the nationalist movement leading to Indian independence in 1947. It contains the famous hymn Vande Mataram ("I revere the Mother"), which has become India's official National Song. Set in Bengal at the time of the famine of 1770, the novel reflects tensions and oppositions within Indian culture between Hindus and Muslims, ruler and ruled, indigenous people and foreign overlords, jungle and town, Aryan and non-Aryan, celibacy and sexuality. It is both a political and a religious work. By recreating the past of Bengal, Chatterji hoped to…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction


The Making of the Times


The Making of an Author


The Making of a Text


The Future in the Past: History in the Making


The Making of a Translation


Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood


Dedication, Epigraph, Notices


Prologue



Chapters 1-18



Chapters 1-8



Chapters 1-12



Chapters 1-8


Critical Apparatus


Dedication, Epigraph, Notices


Prologue



Chapters 1-18



Chapters 1-8



Chapters 1-12



Chapters 1-8


Appendices



Earlier Version of Part II, Chapter 8



Earlier Version of Part III, Chapter 11



History of the Sannyasi Rebellion



Nares Sen-Gupta's and Sri Aurobindo's Translations of the Song Vande Mataram


Select Bibliography


Index to the Introduction and Critical Apparatus