Durgesh Nandini : Bankim Chandra’s first novel, written in 1862-64 & published in 1865, features a Rajput hero & a Bengali heroine; with it was born the Bengali novel. In 1872, Prof Cowell, then at Cambridge reviewed it in Macmillan’s Magazine (q.v.).
... novel after Rajmohan's Wife . Bankim's first attempt of any importance was begun at Page 107 Khulna and finished at Baruipur, the birthplace of some of his finest work. It was the Durgesh Nandini , a name ever memorable as the first-born child of the New Prose. At Baruipur he wrote also Kopal Kundala and Mrinalini and worked at the famous Poison-Tree . At Barhampur, his next station ...
... and helped him in many ways in his political work, and Phadke, a young, orthodox Maratha Brahmin, who was a man of letters and had translated a few Bengali novels including Bankim Chandra's Durgesh Nandini into Marathi. Sri Aurobindo used to read Marathi with him from time to time. Phadke was of a genial temperament, cheerful and witty. Bapubhai Majumdar, a Gujarati Brahmin barrister, stayed with ...
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