Author: Devi, Mahasweta [ Mahasveta Debi (1926- ) ]
Title: Bashai Tudu
Description: Kolkata, Thema, 2002. 2nd impression, orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, xxi,162 pp. Translated from the Bengali by Samik Bandyopadhyay & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ English translation of the Bengali novela 'Bashai Tudu' together with the short story 'Draupadi' concerning the Naxalite movement. ["...evoke(s) a modern myth of a tribal peasant revolutionary who turns up whenever the landless farm labourers are driven to a crisis, leads them to a revolt, gets killed, and appears again at the next point; and a dedicated Communist journalist who has to identify Bashai Tudu's dead body every time - an original mix of documentary realism and revolutionary fantasy, history & fiction, so characteristic of Mahasweta Devi, the outstanding contemporary Bengali novelist and social activity who writes about women, tribals, revolutionaries, in their confrontations with an elaborate exploitative system and writes with both passion and a profound sense of history, and from her direct involvement with the lives of these people" - from rear cover].

Keywords: Naxalites, West Bengal, Naxalite Movement, Naxalites Naxalism, Maoist Maoism, Peasant Movements, Revolutionary India, Communist Literary, Communism History, Bengali Literature