Jagadish Chandra Bose#Jagadish
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#Jagadish
Jagadish Chandra Bose · 1858–1937
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Who this is
Literature — satirist, pioneer of the Assamese short story, editor of Jonaki; the central maker of modern Assamese letters.
“Assam still rises to its feet for a song written by a man who lived five hundred miles away — because when Assamese had almost nothing, Lakshminath Bezbaroa gave it nearly everything a modern literature needs.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“A language that had been thrown out of its own schools and courts got a modern literature in one working lifetime — because a timber merchant spent his evenings giving it a journal, its first short stories, its laughter, its remembered saints and its anthem.”
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