Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir's Men and Rivers
Bengali peasants, as portrayed in Humayun Kabir’s 1945 novel Men and Rivers, have admirable notions of morality and justice, epitomized by the indigenous panchayat (village council/court) system. Written against the backdrop of peasant movements and anti-colonial struggles in Bengal, the novel impli...
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Routledge
2024
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/118867/1/118867_Panchayat%20and%20colonialism.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/118867/ |
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