Durgeshnandini (The Chieftain’s Daughter) is by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Bankim is the father of the Bengali novel and considered by many as its greatest novelist. Durgeshnandini is his first novel in Bengali and the first complete novel in Indian literature. Inspired by the romances of Walter Scott, it is a swashbuckling historical epic set in Bengal during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar in the sixteenth century.
Durgeshnandini (The Chieftain’s Daughter) is by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Bankim is the father of the Bengali novel and considered by many as its greatest novelist. Durgeshnandini is his first novel in Bengali and the first complete novel in Indian literature. Inspired by the romances of Walter Scott, it is a swashbuckling historical epic set in Bengal during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar in the sixteenth century.
Durgeshnandini (The Chieftain’s Daughter) is by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Bankim is the father of the Bengali novel and considered by many as its greatest novelist. Durgeshnandini is his first novel in Bengali and the first complete novel in Indian literature. Inspired by the romances of Walter Scott, it is a swashbuckling historical epic set in Bengal during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar in the sixteenth century.