Research Paper
bangala
Author: koushikattam Paramanik, ,
Research scholar bangala department bhu varanasi
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ABSTRACT
With Jhansir Rani [The Queen of
Jhansi (1956)] Mahasweta Devi announced her arrival in the arena of Bengali
Literature. In the realm of Bengali fiction she established herself as a
novelist, a short-story writer and an essayist. Into her fiction Devi has
incorporated a wide range of human interests—starting from a deep sense of
historicity via concerns for the middle class stratum of the society to the
affairs of tribal lives. Some of her celebrated novels are Mother of 1084, Chotti Munda
and His Arrow, The Glory of Shree Shree
of Ganesh, Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay
and Pirtha. Exploitations of the tribals, especially that of the Santal,
Orao, Dusad, Ganju and Munda communities get vividly portrayed in her
consummate fiction. In Aranyer Adikar,
Chotti Munda and His Arrow and Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha She
has deftly delineated the life of the Mundas of Manbhum, Chota Nagpur and Singhbhum as well as
the Nagasias of Madhya Pradesh. In these novels she has illutrated not only the
social depravity of the tribal people but also their culture, rituals, beliefs
and life-style. In a word she is the narrator of the oppressed and silent
people.
