Matua Ek Mukti Senar Naam (Bengali)

About the BookBASED ON TRUE EVENTSMore than two hundred years ago, in a neglected, remote, water-logged part of East Bengal, in the village of Orakandi in Faridpur district, lived the poor, low-caste Namashudra community. This community was deprived of modern education, deprived of everything that characterizes the life of the civilized. Among such people was born an enlightened thinker: Guru Chand Thakur, son of Harichand Thakur.Following in the footsteps of his father, he tried to mobilize, awaken and uplift the Namashudra people, who the Hindus did not consider good enough to worship their gods. Matua Ek Mukti Senar Naam is their story. It is the story of a movement, a new faith called ‘Matua’, which gave the Namashudras an ideology, a faith to anchor their lives in.This novel is the result of Guruchand and Harichand Thakur’s leadership that a vast working population of our society—who were called Chandal Achhut, untouchables, who were forever humiliated and considered sub-human—has been able to create its own unique identity in social, political, economic and literary fields. This novel tells the story of all of them.