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The Girmitiya Saga

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ISBN Number 9788189738457
Author Information Giriraj Kishore
Copyright Year 2010
Edition Number 1st Edition
Format Book
Binding Hardbound
Dimensions (H x W x D) 23.8 x 16 x 5.6 (cms)
Language English
Imprint Niyogi Books
Page Count 1026 Pages
Publication Date July, 2010
Stock Status 1 In Stock

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In May, 1893, a 24-year-old-attorney arrived at Durban on a year’s girmit (contract) to fight a lawsuit for Dada Abdullah and Co. Thrown out of the train to Pretoria, he was to taste the racial discrimination that plagued the land at that time. Subsequent experiences in South Africa sensitized him to the plight of the girmitiyas (bonded labours). Suspended between despair and a hope for an implausible escape to their promised land, the girmitiyas found in this young attorney a voice that would guide them to a new dawn. In The Girmitiya Saga, Giriraj Kishore retraces the socio-political background of the 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of the young attorney’s actions in South Africa and their monumental significance for humanity as a whole. After having carefully researched the subject in South Africa, England, Mauritius and India, Giriraj Kishore has imaginatively cast the facts in the mould of an arresting novel—Pehla Girmitiya. First published in Hindi in 1999, the novel was very well received in the world of Hindi literature. The following year, the author was honoured with the Vyas Samman by the K.K. Birla Foundation, and the Mahatma Gandhi Samman by the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan for this book. A flesh-and-blood human being, Mohandas Karamchand is an average man who finds himself, along with many others, in a particular historical and sociological configuration that sets him off on a life-altering path—towards becoming the Mahatma…

Giriraj Kishore

जन्म: 1937, मुजफ्फरनगर (उ.प्र.)। शिक्षा: एम.एस.डब्ल्यू.। 1995 में दक्षिण अफ्रीका एवं मॉरीशस की यात्रा। प्रकाशित कृतियाँ: लोग, चिड़ियाघर, जुगलबन्दी, दो, तीसरी सत्ता, दावेदार, यथा-प्रस्तावित, इन्द्र सुनें, अन्तर्ध्वंस, परिशिष्ट, यात्राएँ, ढाईघर, गिरमिटिया (उपन्यास); नीम के फूल, चार मोती बेआब, पेपरवेट, रिश्ता और अन्य कहानियाँ, शहर-दर-शहर, हम प्यार कर लें, गाना बड़े गुलाम अली खाँ का, जगत्तारणी, वल्दरोजी, आन्द्रे की प्रेमिका और अन्य कहानियाँ (कहानी-संग्रह); नरमेध, घास और घोड़ा, प्रजा ही रहने दो, जुर्म आयद, चेहरे-चेहरे किसके चेहरे, केवल मेरा नाम लो, काठ की तोप (नाटक); गुलाम-बेगम-बादशाह (एकांकी-संग्रह); कथ-अकथ, लिखने का तर्क, संवाद सेतु, सरोकार (निबंध-संग्रह)। सम्मान: हिन्दी संस्थान उत्तर प्रदेश का नाटक पर ‘भारतेन्दु पुरस्कार’; मध्यप्रदेश साहित्य परिषद का परिशिष्ट उपन्यास पर ‘वीरसिंह देव पुरस्कार’; उत्तर प्रदेश हिन्दी सम्मेलन द्वारा ‘वासुदेव सिंह स्वर्ण पदक’; 1992 का ‘साहित्य अकादेमी पुरस्कार’; ‘ढाईघर’ के लिए उत्तर प्रदेश हिन्दी संस्थान द्वारा ‘साहित्य भूषण सम्मान’; महात्मा ‘गांधी सम्मान’, हिन्दी संस्थान, उत्तर प्रदेश; ‘व्यास सम्मान’, के.के. बिडला न्यास, नई दिल्ली; ‘जनवाणी सम्मान’, हिन्दी सेवा न्यास, इटावा। आजकल ‘कस्तूरबा’ पर उपन्यास लिखने में व्यस्त।.

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