Durgeśanandinī

…Bengali work was the novel Durgeśnandinī, which features a Rajput hero and a Bengali heroine. In itself it is of indifferent quality, but in the philosopher Debendranath Tagore’s words, it took “the Bengali heart by storm,” and with it the Bengali novel was full born. Kapālkuṇḍalā, a love story against…

…Chandra Chatterjee, whose first novel, Durgeśanandinī (“Daughter of the Lord of the Fort”), appeared in 1865. While not at first overtly nationalist, Bankim Chandra became more and more an apologist for the Hindu position. In Kṛsṇacaritra, Christ suffers in comparison with Krishna, and in his best known work, Ānanda-maṭh (1892;…