UTSARITA ALO- DEBI AHALYABAI, SOMA BANDOPADHYAY, AKHHAR PRAKASHANI.
UTSARITA ALO- DEBI AHALYABAI, SOMA BANDOPADHYAY, AKHHAR PRAKASHANI, PAGE-111, PRICE RS 200. After a long time, I had the opportunity to read a remarkable historical novel. That opportunity primarily arose through Soma Bandopadhyay’s novel, Ahalyabai . While reading, I felt as if I had entered into the unfolding events of medieval history. In recent times, discussions on history have reached us in many dimensions—philosophy, theory, society, economy, and much more. But among all these, the hidden stories that lie within, when revealed, bring before us another truth of history. This unexamined chapter of history helps us to understand the people of the times, their thoughts, and ideas. Just as in Sharadindu Bandopadhyay’s Tungabhadrar Tire, we come to know about the rise and fall of the Vijayanagar Empire of South India, the lives of its kings, their inner courts, and daily life—so too, in the historical context of Indian politics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, severa...