Sarat Chandra Chatterjee

Grihadaha Sarat Chandra Chatterjee Bengali edition

Grihadaha sets on the milieu of 20th century Bengal, represents the socio-cultural panorama of the contemporary era. The novel exhibits the conflict between the traditional Hindus and the Brahmans, centering the difference in customs, creeds and belief. A difference in the rural orthodox rearing and the urban upbringing cues one of the major issues, the novel deals with. Within the socio-cultural context, the novel portrays the interrelationship of the agonized soul tormented by the social discrimination based on religion. The novel Grihadaha is at the same time a piercing analysis of the human love and faith and the so-called integrity of a social institution of marriage.