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Chattopadhyaya, Harindranath
GUPTA, G.S. BALARAMA. "Harindranath's Saint: A Farce." The Century 11, no.2 (1973):
11-12. Reprinted in Essays on Indian Writing in English (1975): 31-32.
The Saint is quite different from Harindranath's earlier plays based on the life of the
legendary Indian holy men. it is a short farce with a single scene, which satirizes the gullibility
of the religious villagers who take a lean opium addict to be a saint emaciated because of
austerities. The play shows Chattopadhyaya as a satirist.
GUPTA, G.S. BALARAMA. "The Devotional Plays of Harindranath Chattopadhyaya."
Journal of the Karnatak University: Humanities, 15 (1973): 116-26. Reprinted in Essays on
Indian Writing in English (1975): 19-30.
In the nineteen-twenties Chattopadhyaya wrote a dozen plays about the Indian saints.
most of these verse plays are quite short, and it is the poetry, not the dramatic action, which
predominates. Tukaram is the exception, with its stageability and humour; it has a tight
structure, and the poetry is functional, not decorative.
GUPTA, G.S. BALARAMA. "A Note on Siddhartha: Man of Peace." In Essays on Indian
Writing in English, 1975: 33-37.
Chattopadhyaya's most ambitious play, in eight acts, Siddartha is a straightforward
enactment of the Buddha's life and message written with a foreign audience in mind. The
language seldom glows with passion, and the dramatic structure is loose. The play is significant
only in the context of the paucity of Indian drama in English.
GUPTA, G.S. BALARAMA. "The Plays of Harindranath Chattopadhyaya." In Perspectives
on Indian Drama in English, edited by M.K. Naik & S. Mokashi-Punekar, 115-23.(114-24)
Madras: OUP, 1977.
Chattopadhyaya wrote a variety of plays, in prose and in verse: devotional plays
based on the lives of the Indian saints (of which Tukaram is the best), social plays, and
historical plays (of which Siddhartha: Man of Peace, based on the life of the Buddha, is the
most impressive).
REDDY, K. VENKATA & SUNANDA, K. "Harindranath Chattopadhyaya's The Parrot."
Journal of Indian Writing in English 11, no.2 (1983): 37-43.
Expository analysis of The Parrot to show that it is too short to develop characters
fully, though it is well structured. The parrot is a good symbol for the helpless bondage of
women in India.
REDDY, K. VENKATA. & SUNANDA, K. "Harindranath Chattopadhyaya's The Parrot:
A Study" Journal of Indian Writing in English 11.2 (1984): 37-43. which year?
YARAVINTHELIMATH, C.R. "Pundalik." In Perspectives on Indian Drama in English,
edited by M.K. Naik & S. Mokashi-Punekar, 124-35. Madras: OUP, 1977.
Chattopadhyaya's one-act-play in verse about a renowned sage makes effective use
of symbols to present the Hindu glorification of parent-worship.
Chaudhuri, Nirad
DEVI, P. LAKSHMI. "Adverse Awareness: A Study of Chaudhuri's The Autobiography of
an Unknown Indian" Journal of Indian Writing in English 17.2 (1989): 55-59.