(The) Definitive Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- New Delhi Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 2018
- [x], 544p. ; 19.5 cm.
Includes glossary.
VANDE MATARAM : Mother, I bow to thee! -- THE POISON TREE A TALE OF HINDU LIFE IN BENGAL : Nagendra's journey by boat -- Coming events cast their shadows before -- Of many subjects -- Tara Charan -- Oh! Lotus-eyed, who art thou? -- The reader has cause for great displeasure -- Haridasi boisnavi -- The babu -- Suraj Mukhi's letter -- The sprout -- Caught at last -- Hira -- No! -- Like to Like -- The forlorn -- Hira's envy -- Hira's quarrel the bud of the poison tree -- The caged bird -- Descent -- Good news -- Suraj Mukhi and Kamal Mani -- What is the poison tree? -- The search -- Every sort of happiness is fleeting -- The fruit of the poison tree -- The signs of love -- By the roadside -- Is there hope? -- Hira's poison tree has blossomed -- News of Suraj Mukhi -- Though all else dies, suffering dies not -- The fruit of Hira's poison tree -- Hira's grandmother -- A dark house : a dark life -- The return -- Explanation -- The simpleton and the serpent -- The catastrophe -- Kunda's tongue is loosened -- The end -- RAJMOHAN'S WIFE : A NOVEL : The drawers of water -- The two cousins -- The truant's return home -- The rise and progress of a Zeminder family -- A letter - a visit to the Zenana -- Midnight plotting -- Love can conquer fear -- Forewarned and forewarned -- we meet to part -- The return -- When thieves fall out -- The friends and the stranger -- The protectress -- Between rival chambers -- Consultations and council -- What befell our hero -- The viglance of love -- Captors and captive -- Madhav and Tara -- Some women are the equals of some men -- The last chapter in life's book - and in this -- Conclusion -- DURGESHNANDINI OR THE CHIEFTAIN'S DAUGHTER : PART I : The temple -- Acquaintance -- The mogal and the Pathan -- The youthful general -- Garmandaran -- Abhiram swami's counsel -- Carelessness -- Bimala's consultations -- The luminary of the race -- Preparation after consultation -- Ashmani's embassy -- Ashmani's rendezvous -- Ashmani's amour -- Abduction of diggaja -- Diggaja's courage -- In presence of Saileshwara -- Vira panchami -- The clever person and her foil -- The lover and his lass -- From room to room -- The rencounter -- PART II : Aesha -The flower-embosomed stone -- Aren't you Tilottama? -- The lady of the veil -- the window -- Bimala's letter -- Bimala's letter (concluded) -- The recovery -- Diggaja's tidings -- Sweet image, away! -- Changing the room -- The singular ornament -- Presenting the ring -- The trance -- The declaration -- Your slave's at your feet, lord -- The last moments -- Hostility -- Aesha's letter -- The flickering lamp -- The consequence the dream belies -- The conclusion -- KAPALKUNDALA : PART I : At the estuary of the Ganges -- On the coast -- In solitude -- On the top of a sand-hill -- On the sea-side -- In the Kapalik's company -- In quest -- In shelter -- In the holy shrine -- PART II : On the highway -- At the inn -- Meeting with the beautiful woman -- In the Palanquin -- In his native land -- In domestic seclusion -- PART III : In the long past -- At the parting of ways -- In her rival's house -- In the palace -- In her own apartments -- Down at the feet -- On the outskirt of the city -- PART IV : In bedchamber -- In the wood -- In dream -- At the tryst -- On the doorstep -- In conversation -- Greeting with co-wife -- Homeward -- Where last rites are paid to the departed humanity