Titu Mir – Mahasweta Devi, Translated by Rimi B. Chatterjee

Description

Titu Mir was a peasant leader who led a revolt against the British in Bengal in 1830–31 and was killed in the uprising — and who lives on as a folk hero in popular memory.

Mahasweta Devi’s historical adventure novel is set in a rural Bengal in upheaval: the Permanent Settlement is ruining villagers, absentee landlords are replacing the old zamindars, and indigo plantations are swallowing farmland. It follows Titu from a fearless, restless boy who stands up for the wronged to the rebel who defends the rural poor against landlords and the British, at the cost of his life. Translated by Rimi B. Chatterjee.