Focusing on the early literary experiences of women in the east Indian state of Orissa, this volume offers valuable insights into the ...
Title: Book review: Early women's writing in Orissa, 1898-1950: a lost tradition ; A space of her own: personal narratives of twelve women ...
Reviewed by Victoria Rowe, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
Early Women’s Writing in Orissa, 1898–1950: A Lost Tradition seeks to recover and introduce a
new generation of readers to writing by the pioneering literary women of the Indian state of
Orissa. In order to achieve this goal, the editor and translator of this volume, Sachidananda
Mohanty, engaged in extensive archival research to locate women’s literary works in the Oriya
language. In addition to finding their literary works, Mohanty also recreates the biographies of
these women writers to reveal fascinating and largely untold stories. Many of these women
writers were well-known to their contemporaries as writers and as activists who wrote on issues
such as the importance of female education, economic emancipation and trade union movements
as well as social restrictions, such as the impropriety of widow remarriage, and the complexities
and effects of colonial domination, independence struggles and partition. In the introduction to
the book Mohanty remarks: “As I dug deeper, I learned that not only had the early literary
women of Orissa left their footprints on every issue and event of consequence, they were often at
the forefront of many such events/movements. They struggled against great odds, but sadly their
legacy lies forgotten in the musty chambers of archives” (p 35).
Due to this kind of neglect, and the contempt of certain contemporary critics who told Mohanty
that if these women’s writing had been any good they would be remembered, the volume Early
Women’s Writing in Orissa, 1898–1950: A Lost Tradition fulfils an important function in
acquainting the reader with this lost tradition of women’s thought and activism. The book
introduces the literary works of twenty women writers. At the beginning of each chapter
Mohanty includes a brief biographical account of the writer, including her involvement in
education or liberation or economic movements, and situates the writer in the literary milieu of
the day. The remainder of each chapter consists of a sample of the writer’s works. The genres
represented in this volume range from poetry, non-fiction essays on the rights of women,
travelogues, autobiographical pieces, short stories, excerpts from novels and letters from prison.
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The texts of many of these writers struggles to reconcile social demands and expectations of
femininity and women’s roles as daughters-in-law, wives and mothers with individual desires for
education, articulation of the self, and expressions of personal creativity. These conflicting
demands are revealed in the poetry of Bidyut Prabha Devi (1926–1977) who wrote in the poem
“The Assault”:
“Is the life of a woman
meant only for childbirth?
Only for drudgery and fuel?
There is no joy
in holding a pen,
and no pleasure in its abandonment.
Writing is the greatest
elixir of all.
Whoever has savoured it,
Can she escape its lure?
Never mind the many pitfalls
On the way.” (p 229)
Early Women’s Writing in Orissa, 1898–1950: A Lost Tradition demonstrates that a group of
women in the Indian state of Orissa, between the years 1898 and 1950, wrote powerfully and
originally about their lives and clearly desired to participate in all aspects of political and literary
life.
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... course as was taken by its counterparts in other areas of modern Orissa. The anti-feudal risings in Talcher State dated back from 1898.
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Rebati and the Woman Question in Orissa ' Interdisciplinary Journal of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies , 1995 . - Ed . Bismruta Parampara : Oriya Sahityare Nari Pratibha : 1898 – 1950 . Kolkata : Central Sahitya Akademi , 2002 .
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He is aptly called as the Thomas Hardy of Odisha.
His “Rebati” (1898) is widely recognized as the first Odia short story. “Rebati” is the story of a young innocent girl whose desire for education is placed in the context of a conservative society in a backward Odisha village.
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'Lachhama' is a historical romance dealing with the anarchical conditions of Odisha in the wake of Maratha invasions during the eighteenth century. Chha Maana Atha Guntha is the first Indian novel to deal with the exploitation of landless peasants by the feudal Lord.
It was written much before the October revolution of Russia or much before the emerging of Marxist ideas in India. Fakir Mohan is also the writer of the first autobiography in Odia, "Atma Jeevan Charita" .
PIONEER OF FIRST PRIVATE ROYAL MANAGED LITE RAIL LINE IN ODISHA AND ANDHRAPRADESH
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*His Highness KCIE Mahrajah Shri Goura Chandra Gajapati Narayana Deb (ll)of Paralakhemundi laid the narrow gauge railway line from Naupada Jn to Paralakhemundi in 1898-99 https://t.co/ICsLdiykK1
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Did you know ? Odisha's first lite rail line started by King Of Parlakimidi By Raja Goura Chandra Gajapati.the line got approval on 1898, on1899 traffic opened for trail run and on 1900 April 10 it's opened for public. Total cost(7lakhs) of this project taken care by royal family https://t.co/f8z9P1lvwR
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At that time there was no odisha origin rail route available for odia people. First Gourachandra Gajapati started this service for "khemundi kingdom" .this 40km rail started at Parala and ends at Naupada. later on 1905 Mayurbhanj king started a service in "Mayurbhanj kingdom."
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... missionaries linked up with Verasalingam's Brahmo movement, and by 1898 their combined efforts ... Like Bihar, Orissa had been for some time a happy hunting ground for Bengali civil ...
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There was no specialist facility available in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa comparable to ... amendments – in conjunction with the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1898, amended in 1923, and ...
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The trend in Bihar and Orissa from 1910, following their separation from ... around 1898, which may be associated with a major famine.
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In Fakir Mohan Senapati ' s ' Rebati ' ( 1898 ) , the first ever short story published in the ... and create a literature of their own in Orissa – Kokila Devi , Kuntala Kumari Sabat , Sita Devi ...
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akir Mohan Senapati laid the foundation of Odia short stories with the publication of ' Rebati' in 1898, about a hundred and twenty two years ...
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4 April 1898
Hiralal Sen and his brother Motilal Sen purchased a Bioscope Cinematographic Machine from London. The first show of imported films was arranged by them at Classic Theatre, Calcutta on April 4. They formed 'The Royal Bioscope Co” which toured Bengal, Orissa and Bihar https://t.co/bY3GEz12Ff
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Is this India of ours, never thought each State will have own rules, Centre while invoking endemic act of 1898, probably never thought, States and it's DM will upsurp federal power.
See/Orissa desires why trains film without their consent https://t.co/FOHL42Hna8
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