Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Mrinalini Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Bengali edition

Mrinalini (1869) is a Romantic Novel, marks his first attempt to set his story against a larger historical context. This book marks the shift from Chattopadhyay's early career, in which he was strictly a writer of romances, to a later period in which he aimed to stimulate the intellect of the Bengali speaking people and bring about a cultural renaissance of Bengali literature.