Indira Goswami: A Compilation on Her Life, Works, and Achievements

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About the Book Indira Goswami: A Compilation on Her Life, Works and Achievements is one of the first attempts is an exhaustive compilation and discussion on the life and works of the celebrated Assamese writer Indira Goswami. Jnanpith awardee Indira Goswami, popularly known as Mamoni Raisom Goswami, is also a renowned scholar on the Ramayana. The book gives a detailed list of her research works, besides her literary contributions. Through the use of critical essays, newspaper clippings of book reviews and comments, a detailed chronology of her life, a detailed list of her writings and research, their translations, of films and plays being staged based on her fictions and with a list of the various publishers who have published her works, the book attempts at presenting a comprehensive account of the life, works and the times of Indira Goswami.

About the Author Manjeet Baruah is a research scholar at the University of Delhi. He is also associated with Women’s Studies & Development Centre, University of Delhi, in teaching and research. His short stories, translations and critical essays have been acclaimed in India and abroad. His forthcoming books include A Bullet That Didn’t Kill and Other Stories of My Life (novel) and Thus Speak Stories: Art and Nationalisms in Modern Assam.

Introduction Dr. Indira Goswami (Mamoni Roysom Goswami) is a celebrated name in Assamese literature. In the book Masterpiece of Indian Literature, Vol. I, published by National Book Trust of India, she has been mentioned as perhaps the greatest woman writer writing in Assamese today.

Dr. Goswami was born (1942) in the Satradhikar family of the Amranga Satra (South Kamrup). Originally their Satra was situated at Garaimari. Destroyed in an earthquake, it was shifted to Jambori and finally to Amranga. These places are on the southern bank of the massive River Brahmaputra. Their forefathers came from Kanauj in present Uttar Pradesh and their Satra was founded 470 years ago by the Vasihnava saint Sree Santa Deva. Sree Santa Deva started preaching Vaishnavism on the south bank of the Brahmaputra, among the various hill tribes like the Garos, and Rabhas and others. The kings of the small principalities like the King of Rani, the King of Luki and the King of Marupuria also became his disciples.

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