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Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: A

Study through the Early 20TH


Century Odia Novel Basanti
Presented by
Nalinikanta Parhi
Transition
• Fakir Mohan and Lingistic nationalism
• Sabuja juga and romanticism
Basanti
• 9 Authors ( 6 Male and 3 Female)
• First collaborative novel
• Serielized in Utkal Sahitya
• Collective composition method
• Collective imagination of the new woman
Cosmopolitan elements
• The authors were cosmopolitan
• Cosmopolitanism in form
• Cosmopolitanism in content
Cosmopolitanism in authors
• Suprava Kar and her agenda of woman
liberation
• Sarala Devi and her radical writings
• Freida’s account of other writers
Cosmopolitanism in form
• Awareness of the trends
• Collective composition method
Cosmopolitanism in Subject matter
• Selection of content
• Feminist aspect
• No danger of the single story
References

• Achebe, Chinua. Home and Exile. Canongate, 2011.


• Das, Freida Hausworth. A Marriage to India. Gyan Books,
1930.
• Das, NC. A Book of Essays. The Cuttack Trading Company,
1936.
• Mohanty, Satya P. Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: a
View from India. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Satpathy, Nityananda. Sabujaru Sāṁpratika. Grantha
Mandir, 1979.
• Senapati, Fakir Mohan, and Rabi Shankar. Mishra. Six Acres
and a Third the Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about
Colonial India. University of California Press, 2006

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