THE LOST WORLD OF SARALA DEVI

Sarala Devi was a multifaceted personality. Not only was she a poet novelist translator and critic of great distinction but also a freedom fighter feminist activist social reformer and educator. She made significant contributions to building a modern Odisha and to the use of literature for social critique and transformation. She advocated a larger role for women in the public sphere.. Despite her prolific oeuvre her work has completely disappeared from the public domain. This collection fills the gap by tracing her historiography through its compilation of some of her best writings translated from the original Odiya. These include prose fiction short stories plays and tales for children. The work stands at the intersection of gender translation and cultural history in the interdisciplinary context and contributes significantly to the making of Indian feminism.