Srikanta (book)

Srikanta
AuthorSarat Chandra
LanguageBengali
GenreNovel
Publication date
  • Part 1: 1917
  • Part 2: 1918
  • Part 3: 1927
  • Part 4: 1933
Publication placeIndia
TextSrikanta at Wikisource

Srikanta, also spelled Srikanto, is a Bengali novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Published in four parts between 1917 and 1933,[1] It has been described as Sarat Chandra's 'masterpiece'.[2][3][4] The novel takes its title after the name of its protagonist, Srikanta, who lives the life of a wanderer.

  1. ^ Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and (tr.) Aruna Chakravarti (2009). Srikanta. Penguin.
  2. ^ Sisir Kumar Das (2006). A History of Indian Literature 1911-1956. Sahitya Academi. p. 340. ISBN 9788172017989.
  3. ^ George, K. M., ed. (1993). Modern Indian Literature: an Anthology: Fiction. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. pp. 93–94. ISBN 81-7201-506-2.
  4. ^ Shandilya, Krupa (2017). "Erotic Worship and the Discourse of Rights: Spiritual Feminism in Saratchandra Chatterjee's Fiction". Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8101-3424-9 – via Project MUSE.(subscription required)