Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay

Charitraheen

Novel about a woman's extramarital affair and social ostracism

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Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay

Bengali novelist of extraordinary popularity whose sympathetic portrayals of women and the poor in rural Bengal made him the most-read Bengali writer of his era. Devdas and Pather Dabi are his most celebrated works.

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