Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. by Dinabandhu Mitra
"Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama" by Dinabandhu Mitra is a Bengali-language play written in 1858–1859. Set during British Company rule in Bengal, the drama portrays the brutal conflict between European indigo planters and Indian farmers exploited under oppressive working conditions. Written to mobilize support for the Indigo Revolt, the play sparked controversy and legal action, with its English translator facing imprisonment for criminal libel. The work pioneered social
realism in Bengali theatre and helped establish colloquial Bengali as a literary language. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mitra, Dinabandhu, 1829-1874 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Dutt, Michael Madhusudan, 1824-1873 |
| Title |
Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nil_Darpan |
| Credits |
Produced by KD Weeks, Mary Glenn Krause, Eric Lehtonen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures |
| Subject | Indigo industry -- India -- Bengal -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 54027 |
| Release Date | Jan 19, 2017 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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