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NEAR FINE in Very Good jacket. [8], 352 pp. 12mo, black finished cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner's name to FPEP, pristine copy otherwise, entirely clean and sharp. DJ price clipped with some loss to blurb, tips rubbed, peeled spot to front, now wrapped in mylar. First appearance in English of a major work by one of the foremost Bengali writers of the 20th century. First published in Bengali in 1943, Panchagram narrates a farmers' cooperative between five villages attempting to resist increasing land tax. "Their struggle to realize the social utopia dreamed of by so many people in the early thirties is not an unfamiliar theme to readers of Western literature. But the nature of the utopia, the characters and their perceptions belong to Bengal. Tarasankar's unusual gift for depicting the village scene and presenting its people in vivid portrayal is in full evidence in this work. An intense picture is given of the political and social turmoil, suffering and determination of rural Bengal during the independence movement"-Rachel Van M. Baumer.
