#bengali-classic
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In the turbulent years when Mughal power was tightening its grip on Bengal, a young Rajput soldier named Jagat Singh is captured while campaigning against a defiant hill fort. Held…
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Abandoned on a wild stretch of coast as a child and raised by a solitary ascetic, Kapalkundala knows nothing of ordinary life until a shipwrecked traveler named Nabakumar washes up…
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Bengal is starving. The great famine has emptied the granaries, the East India Company's tax collectors show no mercy, and in the forests a band of ascetic rebels called the…
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In the small Bengal village of Nischindipur, Apu and his sister Durga grow up in genteel poverty, their father a priest and dreamer who is always about to make the…
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Sent to manage a vast tract of forest land on behalf of an absentee landlord, a young Calcutta clerk arrives expecting a dull posting and finds instead a world that…
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Shankar, a restless young man from rural Bengal, takes a job with the Uganda Railway and finds himself, almost by accident, deep in the African interior chasing rumors of a…
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Talking tigers, clever jackals, seven brothers turned into champa flowers, princesses who sleep for years under a magician's curse, and the ever-resourceful trickster who outwits kings and demons alike: this…
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Raised as the son of a devout, orthodox Hindu family, Gora is a passionate young nationalist certain of his beliefs and scornful of anything that smells of foreign influence, including…
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Binodini, a young widow, arrives to live with the family of her late husband's closest friend, and her sharp mind, wit, and quiet magnetism unsettle everyone around her, most of…
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Devdas and Parvati grow up as childhood playmates and fall in love as naturally as breathing, but when his family refuses to accept a match beneath their status, Parvati is…
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Lalita has grown up practically as a daughter in her wealthy neighbor's house, and everyone assumes she will marry their son Shekhar one day, until a foolish debt her father…