Maitreyi Dasgupta

The Voices of the Subaltern in Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s Novels

Novels are primarily crafted around actual social phenomena. Consequently, in historical novels, the society and social dynamics of the past naturally take precedence. Now, when we speak of the ‘social’ aspect, can every stratum of a society — from top to bottom — truly merit significance as a subject within a historic...