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	Translation Today Journal -General Editorial - Current Issue -Oct. 2004
		Mitra transposes the social, political and economic situations affected by the tyranny of the indigo planters to a literary field superimposing 'readability' on the dispersed events of the time by translating the events to a play.
		In his preface, Mitra employs this transitional strategy to invoke the universal 'moral' world of good and evil, right and wrong and thus rescues the issue of human relationships from the political identities of the dominator and the dominated.
		Dinabandhu Mitra, later awarded the title ‘Raishaheb’, would have made his prefatory appeal in the language of the colonizers; this subjunctive text therefore seems to wait to be written back into English.
	www.anukriti.net /tt/vernacular.asp (1526 words)

	1976 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts - Sombhu Mitra
		SOMBHU MITRA was born in Calcutta, India, on August 22,1915, the sixth child of three sons and four daughters born to Sarat Kumar Mitra, an employee of the Geological Survey of India, and Satadalbasini Mitra.
		MITRA began his acting career in 1939 at the age of 24 at the Rungmahal Theater in Calcutta, and moved from there to the Minerva, Natyaniketan and Srirangam theaters.
		MITRA was very aware of the different heritages of the authors of those plays and that of his Indian audience; therefore he adapted the plays so that they would be meaningful within the Indian cultural context.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Biography/BiographyMitraSom.htm (4630 words)

	Bengali literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The famous Bengali linguist Harprashad Shastri discovered the palm leaf Charyapada manuscript in the Nepal Royal Court Library in 1907.
		Parichand Mitra (penname Tekchand Thakur),is widely considered to be the first Bengali novelist for his novel "Alaler Ghore Dulal".
		Dinabandhu Mitra was the writer of this play.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bengali_literature (1464 words)

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		The aliens are domiciled in the territory of Indian myths, the oppressor as demon and the protector as the sudarshan chakra -wielding Krishna.
		That the vernacular play and the playwright were considered potentially innocuous is supported by the fact that Dinabandhu Mitra was awarded the title 'Raisaheb’ for his service to the British Empire (in the postal department during the Lusai war) in 1871 (i.e.
		Dinabandhu Mitra addressed the benevolent administrators and the oppressive indigo-planters and wrote to seek redress for the oppressed natives and to appeal to the administrators to salvage their fame.
	www.anukriti.net /tt/vernacular.doc (3609 words)

	List of notable Calcuttans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite its decline from the pre-eminent position of the cultural capital of India in recent times, it still retains a strong tradition in cinema and theatre.
		Renowned thespians include Utpal Dutt, Sambhu Mitra, Badal Sircar, Tripti Mitra, Rudraprasad Sengupta, Shaonli Mitra, Usha Ganguli, Ashok Mukhopadhyay among others.
		Among the major styles of Art that Bengal is credited for includes the Art of Bengal School[1], Kalighat Patachitra, and the recent style of Pseudorealism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_notable_Calcuttans (1130 words)

	Catchcal.Com > Kaleidoscope > Culture > Calcutta's Theatre - Commercial Theatres / Early Appearance
		Dinabandhu Mitra, the eminent dramatist, was another patron.
		The 'National Paper' by Nabagopal Mitra, called it 'an event of national importance' and it was restaged after a fortnight.
		Then came Dinabandhu Mitra, a more involved, adept and introspective craftsman with greater social commitment.
	www.catchcal.com /kaleidoscope/calcutta_theatre/commercial.asp (3068 words)

	Rao, Rao and Mitra (1992) The blue devil: Indigo and colonial Bengal : with an English translation of Neel darpan by ...
		Rao, Rao and Mitra (1992) The blue devil: Indigo and colonial Bengal : with an English translation of Neel darpan by Dinabandhu Mitra
		The blue devil: Indigo and colonial Bengal : with an English translation of Neel darpan by Dinabandhu Mitra
		Mitra, Dinabandhu; Indigo industry; Plantations; Land tenure; History; 19th century; India; Bengal
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	BANGLAPEDIA: Bangla Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The rise of the Bangla novel peary chand mitra (1814-1883) and kali prasanna singh (1840-1870) were the first Bangla novelists.
		Madhusudan was followed by dinabandhu mitra whose Nildarpan (1860) has considerable historical value as it depicts the merciless exploitation of Bengali farmers by English indigo traders.
		The poems of Premendra Mitra are inspired by rebelliousness and reflect his sympathy for oppressed and deprived humanity.
	banglapedia.org /HT/B_0138.HTM (11904 words)

	Promotional Site - Bengali Theatre & Performing Arts
		Dramas and plays of distinguished writers like Madhusudan Dutta, Dinabandhu Mitra and Rabindranath Tagore were staged when Girish Ghosh, Sisir Bhaduri, Ardhendu Mushtafi and other stalwarts were carrying Bengali theatre efficiently on their shoulders.
		A great excitement was created when Dinabandhu Mitra staged Neel Darpan - a drama based on the unjust exploitation of indigo farmers by the British.
		Ahindra Chowdhuri, Shambhu Mitra and Tripti Mitra were some of the rare talents who belonged to this group.
	www.bangla-online.info /BanglaLanguage/BengaliTheatrePerformanceArts.htm (743 words)

	History of India
		Bengal in the 1860s and 70s produced a large number of patriotic poems and songs bemoaning the plight of the country and at times even directly referring to the decline of handicrafts.
		Many of these were written for the Hindu Mela organized for some years from 1867 by Nabagopal Mitra with the backing of the Tagore family.
		The newly-established theatre was even more directly anti-British, from Dinabandhu Mitra's exposure of indigo-planters plight in Nil Darpan (1860) down to certain plays in the 1870s which led directly to Lytton's Dramatic Performances Act in 1876.
	indiansaga.com /history/bengal_literature.html (558 words)

	Natyachinta Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		First production ‘Nil-Darpan’ (The Indigo-Mirror), an anti-imperialist play written by Dinabandhu Mitra, was staged on 7 December, 1872, which arose tremendous favour from the audience.
		But the IPTA movement got shattered in 1948, primarily on the question that how far it would be permitted for the partymen to control cultural leadership, and why.
		The first of this venture was Bahurupee, formed by Sambhu Mitra in 1948, Little Theatre Group 1948, Calcutta Theatre 1949, then Natyachakra 1950, Uttar Sarathi 1950, Rupakar 1955, Sundaram 1957, Nandikar 1960, Theatre Workshop1966, Shatabdi 1967, People’s Little Theatre 1971, Chetna 1972, Sayak 1973, Anya Theatre 1985 and many others.
	www.calcuttayellowpages.com /adver/104987bengali-theatre.html (1445 words)

	Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Renowned thespians include Utpal Dutt, Sambhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra, Rudra Prasad Sengupta, Shaonli Mitra, Usha Ganguli, Ashok Mukhopadhyay among others.
		Artists, painters and sculptors like those of the Tagore family (Gaganendranath, Samarendranath, Sunayani Devi, Rabindranath, Rathindranath), Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Ganesh Pyne, Bikash Bhattacharya, Paritosh Sen, Paresh Maity, Thankappan Kutty, Chintamoni Kar, Rathin Mitra and M.F. Husain have at some time in their careers, been associated with Calcutta.
		The Bengal School of Art, and Kalighat Pat are internationally acclaimed schools of Art.
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	General News - IIAS Newsletter Online
		Bengali belles-lettres gained wide public recognition in the latter half of the nineteenth century when form and content were thought to be able to compete with the best in European literature.
		Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1824-1873) in poetry, Dinabandhu Mitra (1830-1873) in drama, and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838-1894) in novels and essays had fundamentally changed the landscape of Bengali literature.
		All through the nineteenth century Indians expected (and were often instructed to expect) that British rule was necessary and would last for a long time to come and that it was impossible even to imagine its end.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/21/theme/21T9.html (1031 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Theatre Stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sarmistha was staged at Belgachhiya Theatre on 3 September 1859 with Priyanath Dutta, Hemchandra Mukherjee, Gourdas Basak, Keshab Chandra Ganguly, Mahendra Goswami, Ishwar Chandra Singh, Jatindra Mohan Thakur, rajendralal mitra and Krishnadhan Banerjee.
		In 1913, the Minerva was reorganised under the leadership of Upendranath Mitra.
		Most plays performed here were written by Dinabandhu Mitra, but a few were by Shishir Kumar Ghosh, Kiron Chandra Banerjee, Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Ramnarayan Tarkaratna.
	banglapedia.org /HT/T_0148.HTM (4966 words)

	Natyachinta Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		They staged the hilarious blockbuster 'Sadhaber Ekadashi' by Dinabandhu Mitra at the residence of Prankrishna Halder in Bagbazaar.
		They had also performed 'Lajbati' another marvelous composition by Dinabandhu Mitra on 11th May, 1872 in the residence of Rajendra Nath Pal at Shyambazaar.
		In 1978, this 'Mancha' became immensely popular and pulled the crowds as Tripti Mitra and Ajitesh Bandyopaddhay staged the unique play 'Thana Theke Aschi' and delivered stellar performances.
	www.calcuttayellowpages.com /adver/104987group.html (4211 words)

	DBLP: Sankar K. Pal
		Sushmita Mitra, Kishori M. Konwar, Sankar K. Pal: Fuzzy decision tree, linguistic rules and fuzzy knowledge-based network: generation and evaluation.
		Pabitra Mitra, Sushmita Mitra, Sankar K. Pal: Evolutionary Modular MLP with Rough Sets and ID3 Algorithm for Staging of Cervical Cancer.
		Sushmita Mitra, Sankar K. Pal: Logical operation based fuzzy MLP for classification and rule generation.
	www.vldb.org /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/p/Pal:Sankar_K=.html (1726 words)

	Bengali Language,official Language of Bengal,Regional Languages of Bengal,Mother Tongue of Bengal
		For about 25 years productions were mostly adaptations of Sanskrit or English plays with exceptions like Dinabandhu Mitra's Nildarpan (1860).
		The first truly romantic Bengali novel is Bankim Chandra's Durgeshnandini (1865), while the first Bengali novel of social realism is Peary Chand Mitra's Alaler Gharer Dulal (1858).
		The leading novelist of the age was Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, who gave the nation its national song Vandemataram from his political novel Anandamath.
	www.indiasite.com /language/bengali.html (900 words)

	Yakshagana - Cultural Magazine
		There is growing restlessness and felling of boredom with the city professional theater.
		Except for Utpal Dutt's Little Theater Group, which performs permanently in Minerva Theater, and Sombhu Mitra's Bohuruupee Company, which plays fitfully though artistically, the commercial stage is in decay.
		It is a sequel to Dinabandhu Mitra's Neel Darpana ("Mirror of Indigo Planters," 1865), which portrayed the first phase of the farm laborers' social awakening and created a stir throughout India.
	www.yakshagana.com /re-apr02-4.htm (2577 words)

	Calcutta : Essential Historical Information, explanation, recent texts, monographs, and relevant links.
		See also: Calicut The City of Palaces The city is home to the National Library of India, and is the cultural capital of India, famous for the book-fairs every winter.
		Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, (novelists) Samaresh Majumdar, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Dibyendu Palit, Purnendu Pattrea, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Rajashekhar Basu, Premendra Mitra, Syed Mustafa Siraj, Mahashweta Devi, Sanjeeb Chattopadhyay, Bimal Kar, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Amitav Ghosh, Amit Chaudhuri, Ashapurna Devi, (poets) Buddhadev Bose, Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Jibanananda Das, Nirendranath Chakraborty, Annada Shankar Ray and Leela Majumdar.
		Theatre Despite its decline from the pre-eminent position of the cultural capital of India in recent times, it still retains a strong tradition in cinema and theatre.
	www.llpoh.org /Reviewing_the_20th_century/Calcutta.html (2589 words)

	Feature
		Sir C.V. Raman - the great scientist and the Nobel Prize winner was initially a Postal Officer.
		Dinabandhu Mitra author of "Nildarpan" was also a Postal Officer.
		The specimen of writings of these eminent personages has been kept with great care in the exhibition gallery.
	pib.nic.in /feature/feyr98/fe1098/f3010981.html (1198 words)

	Indigo planters
		This was another play by Dinabandhu Mitra, "Nildarpan", a powerful protest against the tyranny and exploitation of the indigo planters.
		The Englishman fumed and threatened, but other papers acclaimed the production-Nabagopal Mitras National Paper called it an event of national importance- and the play was staged again a fortnight later.
		The Rev. James Long brought out an English translation of "Nildarpan", written perhaps by himself or by Michael Madhusudan Datta.
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	History Of Ancient, Medieval And Modern India.
		This incident moved young Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in Nasik and he took a vow in front of the family deity to overthrow the British regime.
		He founded Mitra Mela and the Abhinav Bharat', a secret society for revolutionaries.
		Through Mitra Mela, Savarkar recruited writers, poets and artists who spread the message of nationalism.
	bharatadesam.com /history/freedom.php (7599 words)

	Groups participating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The lone exception among the theatre groups in India, where the life of groups has been traditionally short.
		Has an uninterrupted history of creative endeavour and stage productions for the last 50 years being established by the doyen of Modern Indian Theatre, Sri Sombhu Mitra in 1948.
		Along side, it has also produced the works of established Indian playwrights such as Tulshi Lahiri, Manmatha Roy, Sombhu Mitra, Badal Sarkar, Vijay Tendulkar, Manoj Mitra, Girish Karnad and Sisir Kumar Das.
	dramafest-smca.8k.com /groups.html (412 words)

	Bengali Language: A Brief Introduction / print-version
		Important dramatists of 19th century were Dinabandhu Mitra, Girish Chandra Ghosh, Amritlal Basu, Dwijendralal Roy etc
		Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam played important part in motivating people to fight against imperialism through their songs.
		Notable novelists of 20th century are Tarashankar Banerji, Bibhutibhushan Banerji, Achintya Kumar Sengupta, Premendra Mitra, Buddhdeb Basu, Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (Banaphool), Manik Bandopadhyay, Samresh Basu, Bimal Kar, Bimal Mitra, Sankar, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay etc.
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	Catchcal.Com > Kaleidoscope > Culture > Calcutta's Theatre - Notable Playwrights & Their Works
		In those days, Dinabandhu Mitra was a very illustrious name as a playwright.
		Among the most notable playwrights of this genre were Jyotirindranath Thakur, Kiran Chandra Bandopadhyaya, Haralal Roy, Upendra Nath Das, Umesh Chandra Gupta, Pramatha Nath Mitra etc.
		Plays from 1880 — 1900 have been tinged with an intense religious fervour and mythological contents.
	www.catchcal.com /kaleidoscope/calcutta_theatre/notable.asp (761 words)

	KOLKATTA.COM
		Harish Chandra Mookerjee, the editor of The Hindu Patriot, drew attention to this oppression.
		And Dinabandhu Mitra wrote a play, Nil Darpan (translated as “The Mirror Of Indigo”), on the conditions of peasants coerced into cultivating indigo.
		Its translation into English led to the arrest of Reverend James Long, the publisher, and the banning of the play.
	www.kolkatta.com /history/Nationalist_Stirrings.htm (222 words)

	Calcuttaweb - People : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
		Bankim Chandra's youngest daughter Utpala kumari is said to have committed suicide.
		When he was in Jessore, Bankim Chandra met a person by name Dinabandhu Mitra.
		Bankim Chandra dedicated his 'Anandamath' to the memory of his dead friend Dinabandhu Mitra.
	www.calcuttaweb.com /people/bankim.shtml (1917 words)

	The Rising—-Fact or Fiction? at Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
		Lest it be dubbed as a conspiracy to defame our erstwhile masters, the person who brought this to public notice was a preacher named Rev.
		James Long who translated Dinabandhu Mitra’s “Neel Darpan” from Bengali to English.
		The Indigo planters were too much of a negative advertisement for Christianity—a religion he was trying to get the natives to convert to.
	greatbong.net /2005/08/16/the-rising-fact-or-fiction (3552 words)

	Calcuttaweb - Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		During his six years before heading towards Europe, he wrote, Sharmistha, Ekei ki bole sabhyota, Buro shaliker ghare row, Padmabati, Krishnakumari etc. drama and satire; poetic epics like Meghnadbadh kabbyo, Brojangona, Tilottomasambhab.
		He also translated the famous drama Nildarpan by Dinabandhu Mitra from Bengali to English.
		His literary creations arose sensation among the critics.
	www.calcuttaweb.com /lit.htm (957 words)

	The Book Review India
		From its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, Bengali amateur and professional theatre took pride in socio-political reform and dissent.
		If it had not been for "sterile" plays like Dinabandhu Mitra's Nildarpan, would the British authorities have clamped censorship in 1876?
		Dozens of non-escapist commercial Bengali scripts served as models of Indian modernism, advocating everything from women's equality to nationalistic protest.
	www.thebookreviewindia.org /current.php (1813 words)

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