TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaheen Akhtar
AU  - Shabnam Nadiya,  (Tr.)
TI  - Beloved rongomala
SN  - 9789395073356
U1  - 891.443 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Eka
KW  - Bengali fiction
N2  - In eighteenth-century Bengal, the East India influence and power is growing; the treasuries of the zamindars are emptying out and their mansions crumbling. Young Raj Chandra Chowdhury remains oblivious to these epochal changes. He's preoccupied with Rongomala, his mistress, a low-born dancing girl. His uncle Rajendta Narayan sees a chance, conspiring to cake over. Meanwhile, Raj Chandrats childlike wife Phuleswari has developed a queer bond of sisterhood with her nemesis. As for Rongomala herself, she dares to defy her caste status by demanding that a lake be dug in her name; she wishes to be remembered after her youth and beauty have run their course. It is an audacity that might cost her dearly
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