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Nandshankar : A Portrait in Nineteenth-Century Surat

Author :  Vinayak Nandshankar Mehta

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Country
India
Publisher
Orient Blackswan Private Limited, Hyderabad
ISBN 9789354421433
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info xxx, 257p.; 22 cm. Includes Bibliography.
Product Weight 390 gms.
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Published in 1916, Nandshankar Jeevan Chitra, Vinayak Mehta’s biography of his father Nandshankar Tuljashankar Mehta (1835–1905), Gujarat’s first novelist and an eminent educationist and administrator, is the earliest modern father-son biography in Gujarati. Written at a time when the advent of English education had led to a turbulent new stream of reform, agitating the old world of Surat, the period 1860–1880 was also the high tide of creativity when the young Nandshankar, along with luminaries like Narmadashankar, Navalram and Mahipatram, dominated the Gujarat literary scene. Vinayak narrates Nandshankar’s eclectic life against the backdrop of Surat, a vibrant cosmopolitan port, and its changing political fortunes between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He creates a composite picture of the rich cultural life of the period from fragments: remembered conversations, songs, poetry, witty anecdotes, and sketches of eccentric teachers, inept physicians and alcoholic judges.

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