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  1. Mahasweta Devi has 183 books on Goodreads with 21358 ratings. Mahasweta Devi’s most popular book is Mother of 1084.

  2. Sep 11, 2024 · The Best Mahasweta Devi Books. Vote up Mahasweta Devi's most interesting and influential books. Mahasweta Devi, born in 1926 in Dacca, British India (now Dhaka, Bangladesh) was known for her powerful storytelling and fervent advocacy for the marginalized.

    • Kate Kavanagh
    • 8​Memorable works of Mahasweta Devi. An Indian writer in Bengali and an activist – Mahasweta Devi – was a luminary par excellence. She was one of India’s foremost literary figures from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and her literary oeuvre include numerous novels, plays, essays and short stories.
    • 8​Mother of 1084. It is one of Devi's most widely read works, written during the height of the Naxalite agitation in Bengal. This novel focuses on the trauma of a mother who wakes up one morning to the devastating news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite.
    • 8​Breast Stories. The book’s blurb describes it the best: “Breast Stories is a collection of short fiction about the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood, but as a harsh indictment of an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance.”
    • 8​The Queen of Jhansi. The book is a reconstruction of the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai, a legendary Indian heroine who led her troops against the British in the uprising of 1857, from extensive research of historical documents, folk tales, poetry and oral tradition.
  3. Jun 21, 2023 · Mahasweta Devi, Anjum Katyal (Translator) 3.96. 28 ratings4 reviews. A trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at Calcutta society. Set in Calcutta in the mid-1980s, Truth/Untruth is a fast-paced thriller built around the death of the pregnant Jamuna—a maid in a newly affluent residential apartment complex—and Arjun, the upwardly ...

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  4. The Queen of Jhansi, by Mahasweta Devi (translated by Sagaree and Mandira Sengupta). This book is a reconstruction of the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai from extensive research of both historical documents (collected mostly by G. C. Tambe, grandson of the Queen) and folk tales, poetry and oral tradition; the original in Bengali was published in 1956 ...

  5. Mahasweta’s debut book in 1956 was a lucid life sketch “Jhansir Rani” (the Queen of Jhansi) describing the bravery and martyrdom of Laxmibai. She also wrote popular humorous pieces and stories...

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  7. Jul 28, 2016 · Mahasweta Devis books. Average rating: 4.08 · 5,083 ratings · 671 reviews · 182 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Mahasweta Devi… Quotes by Mahasweta Devi (?)

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