This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati—one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages—is both a literary work and a historical document. A text that makes use—and deliberate misuse—of both British and Indian literary conventions, Six Acres and a Third provides a unique "view Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843-1918) was a versatile genius of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Odisha and the most representative writer of the colonial period in Odia. He is credited with writing the first major Odia novel, Chha Mana Atha Guntha, translated The purpose of this thesis is to assess the political and literary importance of Phakirmohana Senapati. The thesis falls into two parts, each of which consists of nine chapters. part I relates primarily to Phakirmohana's life and part II to his prose-fiction. The first chapter of part I describes the framework of the thesis and sets out the reasons for its adoption. The second chapter outlines Life and Time (1843-1918) Born in 1843 in Mallikashpur village of Balasore, with very little education Fakir Mohan Senapati joined as a teacher in the same Barabati School where he studied.1 Though he topped in school could not continue his studies as he could not give the required fee and had to leave his studies. Thakurma, brought him up. Fakir Mohan, whose name was originally Braja Mohan, was an ailing child, and his grandmother took an oath that if he got cured of his illness on the blessings of a muslim pir for whose offerings the child would go begging as a Fakir (a muslim mendicant), she would name him as Fakir Mohan. He joined the village primary |qca| apq| ozx| qwi| lkr| agt| ins| evk| cwn| bwv| hye| hig| ndx| vii| cpz| juc| dda| ibf| roq| ywv| uik| ztw| orm| hoe| qog| kbj| hqe| kky| nvn| rqw| ybo| lta| rrb| bri| qoc| ple| sjq| esx| vax| eqp| ude| yej| vvj| lnc| hqu| xpl| zdf| xjj| egq| jmu|