He has to his credit another translation of Sarat Chandra (Palli Samaj). From 1977 to 1980 he served as an English lecturer in Berhampur University before joining the Indian Audit and Accounts Service. Prasenjit Mukherjee (born 1957) did his Master’s degree in English literature from Utkal University in 1976 with the highest distinction. The ban on the book was lifted only in March 1939. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, leading novelist and short story writer of Bengal, died on 16 January 1938. Sarat Chandra wrote in a letter to Rabindranath Tagore, “If as a writer of Bengal, I have to suffer punishment even though I have not written anything untrue in my book, I am prepared to face it…” However, the bitter criticism of the government contained in it made the rulers issue a proscription. The book was not a piece of political propaganda, as the British regime held it, but a work of art. Later published as a book, 5000 copies of the novel sold out within a week of its publication. The story of Sabyasachi, the charismatic leader of the military organization, Pather Dabi, and the powerful woman characters around him – their inter relationship, agony and ecstasy stirred the public imagination. Pather Dabi caused an enormous furore following its serialization in a Bengali monthly – Bangabani.
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