Readings (Orphan Works)
The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore
[1861-1941]
Translated [from Bengali to English]
by Surendranath Tagore
London: Macmillan, 1919
[published in India, 1915, 1916]
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Glossary
Rabindranath Tagore: The Home and the World
The' Additional Notes' at the back of the Penguin Cla ssics edition of The Home and the World are very useful with following all the Indian vocabulary.
Some examples are:
SWADESHI: Ideology of economic self-reliance; name given to the early phase of the nationalist movement, especially in Bengal
PURDAH: The practice of keeping women secluded
ZENANA: Women's quarters within the house
BABU: A term with which respectable menfolk are addressed in Bengali
BHADRALOK: Genteel Folk , Cultured Folk, Bengal's educated classes
BANDE MATARAM: Hail Mother! A line from a poem by Bankim, that became a nationalist slogan
RAJA : King or Prince; ruler
RANI: Queen
BARA: Older, Big
CHOTA: Junior, Small
Pronunciation guide to the names of the main characters:
Sandip Babu: Shawn-Deep Baa-Boo
Nikhil: Nick-Hill
Nikhilesh: Nick-Hill-csh (-esh is like "ate" or "age", with a long "a" sound)
Bimala: Bee-Mo-La
Amulya: A-Moo-Lyah
Nowadays, Calcutta has been renamed Kolkata.
THE RAMAYANA: One of India's two epic poems
THE BRAGAVAD GITA / THE GITA: Literally, "The Song of the Lord", a long poem that is part of the second epic , THE MAHABHARATA, in which the god Krishna advi ses the warrior Arjuna to tak e up arn1S and go forth in battle. The GITA is considered a holy text by many Hindus.
DURGA / KALI / SHAKTI: All names of the Mother Goddess, who is worshipped widely in Bengal by Bengali Hindus
RAMA: The hero , who is partly divine and partly human, of the epic RAMAYANA. His wife is SITA; his enemy, the demon RAVANA, who abducts SITA. RAMA and
RAVANA are both kings, RAMA of the kingdom of Ayodhya, RAVANA of the kingdom of Lanka.
SARI: A traditional dress worn by Hindu women
VAISHNAVA: A sect among Hindus who worship the blue-skinned god VISHNU.
VISHNU is the keeper of the uni verse , and RAMA and KRISHNA are both his incarnations on earth. Bengalis who worship VISHNU are called VAISHNAVA; those who worship the Mother Goddess are called SAKTA (pronounced SHAAK-TA. after Shakti) . The VAISHNAVA sect has an elaborate school of theology and philosophy associated with it.
AHALYA: A woman, a character in Hindu mythology who was turned to stone by her husband's curse and later released back into her human form through the compassionate touch of RAMA.
SIDDHARTHA: The original name of the Buddha. He was called SIDDHARTHA or GAUTAMA, and was a Prince of the Sakya tribe, before he became an enlightened one.
DIWALl or DEWALl: Festival of Lights, a Hindu holiday that celebrates RAMA and
SITA's return to their kingdom in Ayodhya, after RAMA has defeated RAVANA in battle and been reunited with his wife SITA.
FLUTE: The blue-skinned god KRISHNA pla ys the flute. In different contexts in poetry and literature, as also in Hindu theology, its sound connotes love, longing, separation from the beloved, and passionate union with the beloved.
KALIDASA: The greatest classical poet in Sanskrit literature.
Reserve Readings
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Books
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy - Jalal, Ayesha & Bose, Sugata
A cogent, brief history of India from earliest times to the 1990s. Co-authored by a Pakistani and an Indian (professors of history at Tufts and at Harvard, respectively) the book is especially good on its coverage of the fractured post-Independence political landscape. Bose is a grandnephew of the renowned Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose.
Train to Pakistan - Singh, Khushwant
In the summer of 1947, the frontier between India and its newly-created neighbor, Pakistan, had become a river of blood, as the post-Partition exodus across the border erupted into violent rioting. In Train to Pakistan, truth meets fiction with stunning impact, as Khushwant Singh recounts the trauma and tragedy of Partition through the stories of his characters that he, his family and friends themselves experienced or saw enacted before their eyes.
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