মাধবীকঙ্কণ
By রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত
Cover: Akbar's adventures with the elephant Hawa'i (c. 1590-95), opaque watercolour and gold on paper, composition by Basawan, colouring by Chitra by Basawan (active c. 1560-1600) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (Mughal miniature of c. 1590, more than 400 years old)
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A historical romance set in the Bengal of Akbar's reign, when the Mughals were still subduing the Afghan chiefs of the delta. It opens on a summer evening on the bank of the Bhagirathi, where two boys and a girl are playing on the sand. It is an early Bengali novel by Romesh Chunder Dutt, the civil servant and historian, published in 1877.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.