মাধবীকঙ্কণ
By রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত
Cover: Akbar's adventures with the elephant Hawa'i (c. 1590-95), opaque watercolour and gold on paper, composition by Basawan, colouring by Chitra by Basawan (active c. 1560-1600) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (Mughal miniature of c. 1590, more than 400 years old)
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A historical romance set in the Bengal of Akbar's reign, when the Mughals were still subduing the Afghan chiefs of the delta. It opens on a summer evening on the bank of the Bhagirathi, where two boys and a girl are playing on the sand. It is an early Bengali novel by Romesh Chunder Dutt, the civil servant and historian, published in 1877. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.