Early feminist, pioneering novelist: Recalling colonial-era Marathi Christian reformer Baba Padmanji
Far from being a European lackey, as he is sometimes characterised, he was a visionary whose contributions undergird the history of modernity in India. Baba Padmanji.
In 1857, India’s first vernacular-Marathi novel emerged from the presses. At the time, it received only an ambivalent response. But in the years that followed, the book went through three further editions and was included in the curriculum of Bombay University. In 2002, the trenchant critic Bhalchandra Nemade extolled the novel as the first example of “realistic” writing in Marathi fiction that was much ahead of its times.
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Banjara community pans Marathi novel
Banjara community pans Marathi novel
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Jan 12, 2021, 06:00 IST
People have found fault in Bhalchandra Nemade’s ‘Hindu’ for portraying certain women as prostitutes without
evidence
FIR) against eminent Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade (82) for allegedly defaming the
Banjara women and the community in his novel
Hindu: Jagnyachi Samruddha Adgal.
Known for the novel, along with noted works like Kosala, Nemade has won the
Jnanpith award and has also received a Padma Shri. The novel, which has come under fire, was his last work. Published in 2010, it is said to be a product of research that spanned 31 years. It concerns the evolution of Hindu religion over centuries.