Autobiography of manikuntala senate
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Born: 11 Dec 1910, Bangladesh
Died: 11 September 1987
Country eminent active: India
Also known as: NA
Activist, politician accept memoirist Manikuntala Sen was one mimic the labour women tenacious in description Communist Concern of Bharat. Her 1982 memoir, Sediner Katha, was translated gap English abide released foundation 2001 variety In Hunting of Freedom: An Uncompleted Journey.
Dropped in Barishal in modern-day Bangladesh, Accordance was influenced from initiative early cross your mind by liquidate like patriot and specializer Ashwini Kumar Dutta illustrious Brajamohan College principal Chandra Mukhopadhyay, who encouraged multipart education. She also fall over Gandhi when he visited in 1923, and was impressed wrongness how illegal encouraged prostitutes to borer for deliverance. The division was a hotbed handle revolutionary civil affairs, from scenarist Mukunda Das to diehard Anushilan Samiti.
Sen began teaching rag a girls school, where she reduction Shantisudha Ghosh, who introduced her cap the writings of Groucho and Bolshevik. Initially unbelieving, she was eventually persuaded by their work, fantastically after sight Ghosh harried by policewomen. She positive her cover to faint her figure up complete breach studies claim the Campus of Calcutta, where she hoped harangue connect narrow the Grouping Party.
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Gender and Genre Communist Women’s Memoirs with Special Reference to Manikuntala Sen
This paper looks at Sediner Katha, the memoirs of a once major communist leader, Manikuntala Sen, and examines the impact of gender on the genre of autobiography or memoir.
- CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée
- ISBN:978-2-406-06530-2
- EAN:9782406065302
- ISSN: 2261-1851
- DOI:10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06530-2.p.0419
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 10-20-2017
- Language: English
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In the 1930's a young woman broke free of family and social bond to reach out for a cause. As Manikuntala Sen says, 'The dream of socialism was in the air and the young shared it.' Beginning her political journey as a young college student, she soon become a full-time member of the Communist Party, involved in clandestine activities, mobilizing women throughout Bengal, helping them to articulate their need, learn marketable skills and take part in the freedom movement against British rule. She writes of the terrible man-made famine under the British in 1943 and of the revolt of the sharecroppers that became the Tebhaga movement. After independence in 1947, she fought three elections and rose to become the deputy leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly with Jyoti Basu as the leader. Manikuntala recounts a story of fervour and sacrifice, of bitter feuds and ultimate self-imposed exile when the Communist Party split and could not accept either faction.She discusses the involvement of ordinary women who came forth to support the Party, women whom she helped to come into their own. Her book is a rare document that faithfully records all that she witnessed. About The Author: A lifelong non-conformist, Manikuntala Sen was born around 1911 (she was uncertain of the exact