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The Observant Owl: Hootum’s Vignettes of Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
Kaliprasanna Sinha, Swarup Roy (Tr.)
Price
395.00
ISBN
9788178241982
Language
English
Pages
216
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2011
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Permanent Black
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This book is a rambunctious romp through nineteenth-century Calcutta, a translation of Hootum Pyanchar Naksha (literally ‘Sketches by Hootum the Owl’), a set of satirical portraits so popular that it has never been out of print since its publication in 1862. This is its first ever translation.

The writing is so vivid that there is within these pages a sense of walking through a decadent Dickensian city as fishwives call out their wares, housewives hurry to the river for baths, thieves pick pockets, and carriages creak through slush and rotting banana peel carting passengers high on ganja.

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