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082			_a954.02 ELI
100			_a Elias, Akhtaruzzaman.
245			_aKhwabnama _c/ Akhtaruzzaman Elias.
260			_aGurugram _b: Penguin _c, 2021.
300			_a545p. _c: 22cm.
365			_b489
520			_aBengal in the 1940s. Having overcome the famine and the revolt of the sharecroppers, Bengal's peasants are uniting. Work is scarce and wages are low. There is barely any food to be had. The proposal for the formation of Pakistan, the elections of 1946, and communal riots are rewriting the contours of history furiously. Amidst all this, in an unnamed village, a familiar corporeal spirit plunges into knee-deep mud. This is Tamiz's father, the man in possession of Khwabnama. At first glance, Khwabnama is the tale of a harmless young farmhand who becomes a sharecropper and dreams of a future that has everything to do with the land that he cultivates and the soil that he tills. The fabric of his dreams, though, have as much to do with the history of the land as its future, and as much to do with memories as with hope. In this magnum opus, which documents the Tebhaga movement, wherein peasants demanded two-thirds of the harvest they produced on the land owned by zamindars, Akhtaruzzaman Elias has created an extraordinary tale of magical realism, blending memory with reality, legend with history and the struggle of marginalized people with the stories of their ancestors. Read less
650			_a History furiously
650			_aHistory
650			_a History of the land
700			_aAkhtaruzzaman Elias
942			_cBOOK
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