Author: Dutt, Shoshee Chunder [1824-1885]
Title: Stray Leaves; or Essays, Poems, and Tales
Description: Calcutta, D'Rozario & Co. 1864. half-cloth. 24x15cm, (2),381,(1)pp, Later [mid-to-late 20th century] crude binder's blind half-cloth. Foxed.. Pages browned. Some pinholes and wormholes to margins. Good. ¶ Esays include: Hindu Caste: Its Nature, Origin & Tendency; Vedantism: or, the Monotheistic Religion of India; Pouranism; or, the Mythology of the Hindus; The Religious Mendicants of India; The Popular Superstitions of the Hindus; Young Bengal: His Position & Importance; Hindu Female Education; Home Life in Bengal; A History of the Rohilla Afghans; The Mahomedan Rule in India; Observations in India: a by a resident therer many years; Training of Native Youths in Europe; The Ancient Cities of the World.

Keywords: Bengali Literature, Colonial India, Literary History, Bengal, South Asia, , , ,