01941nam a2200253Ia 4500 OSt 20241014165320.0 210210b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 81 260 0813 X AL Kannada K894.3 INDD INDIRA GOSVAMI. ಇಂದಿರಾ ಗೋಸ್ವಾಮಿ 182294 Dakshina kamarupada ondu kathanaka. ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕಾಮರೂಪದ ಒಂದು ಕಥಾನಕ. Navadehali Sahitya Akademi 2002 viii,426 Kannada translation of the Assamese Novel "One Kiowa Howdah" by Indira Goswami who has been awarded Jnanpith award, India's highest literary honor. This novel centers around a sattra (religious Vaisnavite monastery) in a remote corner of North East India in the district of Kamrup in Assam. The adhikars or the head of the Sattras enjoyed immense privileges holding vast tracts of lands donated by the Ahom kings of Assam. This novel portrays vividly the wretched conditions of the lower inmates of the sattras such as the disciples, the tenant farmers, the mahouts and other villagers who were mostly opium addicts. The harrowing condition of the Brahmin widow's has also been portrayed with vivid details. . The American Baptist Mission which came to Assam in 1836, had a strong hold over some parts of the Kamrup district. This story is also the story of a young missionary who goes to the Sattra to collect old Assamese manuscripts, and falls in love with the widowed daughter of the Gossoon. The consequences of this relationship is disastrous, ending in the death of the girl widow. A saga of south kamarup 182295 Une khowa howda, Assami Novel 182297 Kannada Fiction 182296 Anantharamayya R L ಆರ್‌. ಎಲ್‌ .ಅನಂತರಾಮಯ್ಯ tr 182298 058347 ddc BK 105771 105771 0 0 0 0 Kannada Literature AL AL Kannada Literature 2021-02-17 Athree Book Centre, Mangalore-01. 180.00 0 K894.3 INDD 058347 2021-02-17 00:00:00 2021-02-17 BK