Nandshankar : a protrait in nineteenth-century Surat / by Vinayak Nandshankar Mehta; translated from the original Gujarati by Radhika Jayakar Herzberger
By
Mehta, Vinayak Nandshankar
Contributor
Radhika Jayakar Herzberger
Item Type
Paperback (Book)
Serial
15556
Publisher
Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad
Description
xxx, 257 pages
ISBN / ISSN No.
9789354421433
Subject
Biography | Nandshankar.
Summay
Published in 1916, Nandshankar Jeevan Chitra, Vinayak Mehta’s biography of his father Nandshankar Tuljashankar Mehta (1835–1905), Gujarat’s first novelist and an eminent educationist and administrator, is the earliest modern father-son biography in Gujarati. Vinayak presents facets of his father’s life: his boyhood shaped by British schoolmasters, Nandshankar as administrator, and Nandshankar as author of the historical novel Karan Ghelo. Drawn against a vivid and colourful backdrop of a changing culture, Nandshankar is presented as a man who navigated the disruptive aspects of modernity with grace and integrity. The biography, the outcome of historiography and historical craft combined with Vinayak’s literary and aesthetic sensibilities, reveals a work of astonishing eloquence, erudition and foresight.
Keyword
Biography of Nandshankar.
Accession No.
15556
Status
Available
Category
Biography-Autobiography
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