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Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford UP, 2019)
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67 minutes
Released:
Jun 10, 2020
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This book is a translation and study of The Subhedar's Son (Oxford University Press, 2019), an award-winning Marathi biographical novel written in 1895 by Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar, who writes about his own father, Rev.Shankar Nana (1819-1884). Nana, a Brahmin, was among the early Christian converts of the Church Missionary Society in Western India. The Subhedar's Son provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions. In this podcast, we interview Deepra Dandekar – author of this book, and Sawarkar’s own great-grand-daughter–about this text and its important context.
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Released:
Jun 10, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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