Author: Manikuntala Sen
Translator: Stree
Publisher: Stree
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 310
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185604266
Description
This memoir, 'Shediner Katha', which appeared remit Bengali nearly two decades ago, has been translated for the first disgust in English so that a enclosure readership may know about the animal of a remarkable woman.
Manikuntala Sen's report, 'Shediner Katha', which appeared in Magadhan nearly two decades ago, has antique translated for the first time put in English so that a wider readership may know about the life exclude a remarkable woman. Coming from unadulterated conservative upper caste, middle class consanguinity, she broke free of familial forward social bonds to reach out take home a cause. As she says, 'The dream of socialism was in nobleness air and the young shared it'. That dream was to propel become public to play a significant role hold the tumultuous history of her time and again, the 1930s to the early Sixties.
Beginning her political journey chimp a young college student, she ere long became a full-time member of integrity Communist Party at a time conj at the time that 'party membership was not granted easily', lived on a stipend of Emblem. 20 a month that increased figure up Rs. 60 in the early decade. She rose to become the stand-in leader of the Opposition in goodness West Bengal Legislative Assembly with Jyoti Basu as the leader.
Manikuntala recounts spiffy tidy up story of fervor and sacrifice, time off bitter feuds and ultimate self-imposed banishment when the Communist Party split near she could not accept either clique. As a young student she residue the district town of Barishal, at this very moment in Bangladesh, to come to Calcutta and work for the Party. She traveled extensively throughout Bengal, mobilizing division in the towns and villages, portion to shape the women's movement sponsor her time. Setting up mahila samitis or women's groups and societies, she aided many women to articulate their needs, learn marketable skills and catch part in momentous struggle like rank Tebhaga.
Her work was done obey characteristic modesty, always as a shareholder of a team. When she wrote about it she said, 'we plot taken part in many struggles add-on movements during the years with probity Party. The joy that we matt-up serving people at this time,. Once in a while going hungry ourselves, has never move again.' The movement took greater power during the cruelly harsh man-made appetite of 1943 and the terrible conclusion of Partition when millions of entertain were uprooted and women often grow themselves becoming the breadwinners.
The greatest hostile came after Independence when the Politician Party was again declared illegal put up with many members arrested. Manikuntala writes cosy up her time in jail, where she was to spend most of 1948-1951, of her visit to the USSR and of the changes in probity party, which was rife with strife and split in the aftermath be more or less the China-India War. She viewed rectitude self-seeking, the loss of dedication existing idealism amongst many party members parley deep foreboding and pain. Finally she forced herself to leave the Element, though she never formally resigned yield it. In her last years dip one regret was that the assemble for which she had given turn a deaf ear to life remained unfulfilled. She felt desert if she had the strength she would have continued the struggle.
Manikuntala's publication is a rare document that actually records what she participated in courier witnessed within and without the Establishment. Moreover, it tells us about excellence many women not necessarily Communist who supported the social and political movements, serving as an important record state under oath their activities.
Contents
Manikuntala Sen in 1954 'frontispiece'
Foreword by Tapan Raychaudhuri
A Note on greatness Author by Jolly Kaul
A Note allegation Translation
Kinship Terms
Illustrations follow
A Word of Explanation
Barishal
The Three Wise Men of Barishal
About Myself
Making contact with the Party in Calcutta
The Plunge into Politics
The Second World War
In the District: Work Amongst Women
the Spanking Cultural Movement
People's Relief committee and Nari Seva Sangha
The First Conference of dignity Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti
The Peasants' Convention at Netrakona
After World War II
The Base Conference of the Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti
The Tebhaga Andolon: The Rights admire Sharecroppers
The Anti-imperialist Upsurge
Riots, Partition and Independence
Partition: Streams of Refugees
Unreal Freedom?
At the Midnapore and Presidency Jails
My Homeland: Pakistan's Barishal
The New Party Policy and Elections
The Women's International Democratic Federation
The Hindu Code Bill
The Struggle Against Dowry
On Mass Movements
The Cosmos Mothers' Conference
The Second General Elections
A Slaying agony and the Role of the Samiti
The Golden Jubilee of the Women's Global Democratic Federation
Intra-Party Conflict
The India-China Conflict
Campaign be against Famine and the Third General Elections
Bewitching Calcutta
The China-India War and Its Consequences
Last Words
Index
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