“The Republic of Orissá; A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century”

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Title“The Republic of Orissá; A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century”
Year for Search1845
AuthorsDutt, Shoshee Chunder(1824-85)
Secondary TitleThe Bengal Hurkaru and India Gazette
Date PublishedMay 25, 1845
ISBN Number978-78-308863-8, 9781842330494
KeywordsIndian author, Male author
Annotation

The story is set in the dystopia of colonial India with the government passing a law that supports slavery, which leads to a revolt in which the British are defeated but then ignore what they had agreed to do.
Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Bengaliana: A Dish of Rice and Curry, and Other Indigestible Ingredients (Calcutta, India: Thacker, Spink, and Co., [1878]), 347-56. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up; in Selections from ‘Bengaliana’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-59, with a Glossary on 164-38; and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 133-41, with an editor’s introduction on 126-32. 
URLhttps://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up
Holding Institutions

MH, NSyU, PU
Author Note

Indian author (1824-85)
Full Text

1845 Dutt, Shoshee Chunder (1824-85). “The Republic of Orissá; A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century.” The Bengal Hurkaru and India Gazette (May 25, 1845). Rpt. in Bengaliana: A Dish of Rice and Curry, and Other Indigestible Ingredients (Calcutta, India: Thacker, Spink, and Co., [1878]), 347-56. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up; in Selections from ‘Bengaliana’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-59, with a Glossary on 164-38; and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 133-41, with an editor’s introduction on 126-32. MH, PU

The story is set in the dystopia of colonial India with the government passing a law that supports slavery, which leads to a revolt in which the British are defeated but then ignore what they had agreed to do. Indian author.