Stories of Bengalee Life

by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay

 

STORIES

OF

BENGALEE LIFE

 

STORIES OF BENGALEE LIFE

 

Translated from the Bengali
of
PRABHAT KUMAR MUKERJI

 

by
MIRIAM S. KNIGHT
and
THE AUTHOR

 

Calcutta
CHUCKERVERTTY, CHATTERJI & CO.,
15, College Square.
1912

Price $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Paper, Rs. 1/8.
	Cloth,„2.

 

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Printed by R. Floris
at the India Press,
24, Middle Road, Entally, Calcutta.

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FOREWORD

THE STORIES presented in this volume have been selected from the "Naba-Katha," the "Sorashi" and the "Deshi-o-Bilati" by Mr. Prabhat Kumar Mukerji, one of the best writers of short stories in the Bengali language.

The first four stories were translated by the author himself and the remaining six by Mrs. M. S. Knight, the well-known translator of some of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Bengali novels.

The Publishers

 

CONTENTS.

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I.	THE WILES OF A PLEADER …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	1
II.	HIS RELEASE …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	38
III.	SWIFT RETRIBUTION …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	83
IV.	THE LADY FROM BENARES …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	114
V.	SIGNS OF THE TIMES …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	141
VI.	THE FOREST CHILD …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	159
VII.	THE FOUNDLING …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	173
VIII.	THE FULFILMENT OF A VOW …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	201
IX.	THE DANGER OF BEING WRONGLY TAUGHT …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	217
X.	A PSEUDONYM …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	234
	GLOSSARY …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …     …	253