Hajar Churashir Maa
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Hajar Churashir Maa is a landmark Bengali novel by Mahasweta Devi that portrays a mother's political awakening amid the Naxalite movement and state repression in 1970s India.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bengali-language novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Indian leftist literature
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postcolonial Indian literature ⓘ |
| author | Mahasweta Devi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralCharacter | Sujata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralCharacterRole | mother of a Naxalite youth ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| explores |
family and ideology
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gender and politics ⓘ memory and mourning ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Govind Nihalani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationLanguage | Hindi ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist literature
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political novel ⓘ social realist novel ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
key text on the Naxalite movement in Indian fiction
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landmark work in Bengali literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Naxalite movement
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class struggle ⓘ left-wing radicalism ⓘ mother–child relationship ⓘ police brutality ⓘ political awakening ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ state repression ⓘ |
| movementDepicted |
Naxalbari uprising aftermath
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Naxalite movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
a mother’s political consciousness
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state violence against dissidents ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Bengali ⓘ |
| portrays |
custodial torture
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enforced disappearances ⓘ extra-judicial killings ⓘ political disillusionment ⓘ solidarity with political prisoners ⓘ urban middle-class engagement with radical politics ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| setInPlace |
Kolkata
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West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | Mother of 1084 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | the corpse number of the son in the morgue ⓘ |
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