Baburam, a wealthy and foolish Bengali gentleman, raises his son Matilall without discipline, and the boy drifts from an idle English education into bad company, debts and the Calcutta police court. Peary Chand Mitra lays out the comedy and cost of the household, from family quarrels to the fat old father’s plan to marry again.
Widely regarded as the first novel in Bengali, a lively satire of nineteenth-century Calcutta society in English translation. Download the free EPUB.