Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bandhon Hara [Unfettered]

Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Ed. by Niaz Zaman, Independent University Bangladesh
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1927

Places

Bangladesh (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

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Kazi Nazrul Islam’s novel

Bandhon Hara

[

Unfettered

] began to be serialized in

Moslem Bharat

[Muslim India] from mid-April 1920 and was published as a book in 1927. The first of his three novels, it is notable for the autobiographical details it provides of the writer’s life as a soldier in Karachi. At the same time this epistolary novel – perhaps the first such novel written in Bengali – also provides details of the lives of Muslim women in the early years of the twentieth century. In addition to the Muslim women, there is also a Brahmo woman in the novel, whose function is to show the contrast between the lives of Muslim women and the freer Brahmo woman.

Kazi Nazrul Islam was a great admirer of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), and it is possible that he was influenced by

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Citation: Zaman, Niaz. "Bandhon Hara". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 January 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39286, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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