“The Republic of Orissá; A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century”
| Title | “The Republic of Orissá; A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century” |
| Year for Search | 1845 |
| Authors | Dutt, Shoshee Chunder(1824-1885) |
| Secondary Title | The Bengal Hurkaru and India Gazette |
| Date Published | May 25, 1845 |
| ISBN Number | 978-78-308863-8, 9781842330494 |
| Keywords | Indian 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]), 347-356. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up; in Selections from ‘Bengaliana’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-159, with a Glossary on 164-168; and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 133-141, with an editor’s introduction on 126-132. |
| URL | https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up |
| Info Notes | May 25, 1845 was a Sunday and the microfilm of The Bengal Hurkaru and India Gazette held by the British Library skips that day. |
| 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]), 347-356. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up; in Selections from ‘Bengaliana’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-159, with a Glossary on 164-168; and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 133-141, with an editor’s introduction on 126-132. MH, NSyU, 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. |
