Bhabani Bhattacharya

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His Life: Bhabani Bhattacharya was born in Bihar to Bengali parents. In 1927, he graduated with a degree in English Literature from Patna University. In 1928, Bhattacharya moved to England to continue his studies. His initial intention was to continue studying English Literature at King's College, London. However after an acrimonious encounter with one of his professors he decided on a degree in history instead. While studying for his degree at the university of London, Bhattacharya was taught by the political Philospher and author Harold Laski who would be along with Tagore and Gandhi a lasting influence on his writing.
During his time in London, Bhattacharya became closely associated with marxist groups and an active member of the League Against Imperialism. While in London, Bhattacharya contributed to a number of journals and newspapers. He published in the book man, the Manchester Guardian and the Spectator, which at the time was edited by author of the best selling lives of a Bengal Lancer. Francis yeats. Brown, who would become a close friend. Both he and Tagore urged Bhattacharya to use English as a medium of expression for his fiction, rather than Bengali. In 1930 Bhattacharya translated Tagore.
The Golden Boat to wide acclaim. He graduated from the university of London with a degree in history in 1931. From 1932 to 1933, he travelled widely through Europe, including Berlin, Budapest, Warsdaw, Paris and Vienna:
Bhattacharya returned to India in December 1934 and settled in Calcutta. He married Salil Mukherji in 1935.
In 1949, he moved to Washington as press attache for the Indian Embassy. In 1947, 'So Many Hungers' was published. 'Music for Mohini', one of his most acclaimed novels, was published in 1952 and shadow from Ladakh', which received the Sahitya Akademi Award (India's highest literary award), in 1966.
His novels were translated into became jasiting professor at the university of Hawaii". In 1972 he moved permanently to the US. He died of a heart attack in 1988.
Bhattacharya's Writing Style: Bhattacharya is described as belonging to the social realism school of indo-Anglian literature. His writings exhibit. The influence of Rabindra Nath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi. Unlike other social realists like Premchand. Bhattacharya adopted a pedagogical approach to making novels out of ideas, utilizing satire and making his ideas more tangible through situational examples.
The range of South Indian writers who seems to dominate the scene of 'Gandhian Fiction' Bhabani Bhattacharya deserves to be mention for his first novel 'So Many Hungers' (1947), published few months after independence.
Set in a context of the 1942-43 Bengal famine and 'Quit India Movement'. This complicated and didactic novel takes its characters through a rigorously Gandhian education. It is at one level, the story of Kajoli, a village girl who righteously rejects the prostitution forced on her by the destitution of her family, to sell newspapers and so also to assume the persona of the Gandhian 'New Woman'. At another level, it deals with the spiritual and political growing up of Rahoul, a Cambridge educated a Cambridge educated astrophysicist who simultaneously discovers the limits of intellectualism and Western civilization and renounces both in favour of nationalism and village based economy. Much of his instructions comes by way of his grand father, Devata, a saintly Gandhian figure with a penchant for the hunger strike, who is responsible for bringing satyagra to the village of Baruni, where he lives like one of the peasant. He received sahitya Akademi Award in 1967.
Bhabani Bhattacharya is one of the four mainstays of the Indian authors in English - the other three being R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao having a place with the more established age of the writers.
His anecdotal corpus incorporates such remarkable six books as:
(1) Such a Large Numer of Hungers (1947),
(2) Music for Mohini (1952),
(3) He who Rides a Tiger (1955),
(4) A Godness Named Gold (1960),
(5) Shadow from Ladakh (1966), and
(6) 'A Dream of Hawaii (1978).
Further more, he has likewise composed various short stories gathered in the little steel Hawk and different stories (1968). In this structure of imagination, the establishment lays on the subjects of social reality, conflict among custom and innovation, allegorization versus trust worthiness of certainities, East-West experience, progressivism worry for the normal man, Indianess, humanism, investigation of oneself and the issue of personality of the post-independence Indian country and Indian man. In the expression of Monika Gupta "Bhattacharya can appropriately be known as the doyen of the Indian - English tale in current Indian for his advanced vision recorded point of view of the Indian social reality and his well-characterized hypothesis of the art of fiction."

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