Title of the Book: yaruingam (ইয়াৰুনগম)
Author of the Book: Bhattacharya, Birendra Kumar
Publisher: Chandra Prakash
Place of publication: GUWAHATI, ASSAM
Price: 270 INR
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The word "yaruingam" means people’s rule. The novel, Yaruingam, was based on the Nagas, Tangkhul Nagas in particular, and dealt with the historical moment between the middle of the 1940s and the 1950s. But, the novel was as much about an early postcolonial Assamese literary imagination of “people’s rule.” This was possibly the earliest novel in any language that addressed the Naga political struggle for sovereign self-determination vis-à-vis the Indian state. The novel won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 and Birendra Kumar became an important figure of Indian literature, including of the institution of Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters). Though this was not his first novel, Yaruingam was the work which gave him recognition in the national literary scene. Considered an Assamese classic, the novel has also been widely appreciated as one of the most defining moments in the genre of political novels in modern Assamese literature.
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