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{{short description|Novel by Satinath Bhaduri}}
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| english_pub_date = 1963<br>(Asia Publishing House, Bombay)
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'''''Jagari''''' or '''''Jagori''''' ({{Langx|bn|জাগরী}}, English: "The Vigil" or "Awake") is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] novel written by [[Satinath Bhaduri]]. The novel is considered to be a master-piece of Indian literature and it was first published in 1945.<ref name="Trust1997">{{cite book|last=Trust|first=National Book|title=Masterpieces of Indian literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXFOAAAAYAAJ|year=1997|publisher=National Book Trust|isbn=978-81-237-1978-8|page=124}}</ref> It is a semi-autobiographical novel and it is set in the 1940s's during the [[Quit India Movement]].<ref name="The five must-read books of Bengali literature">{{cite news|author=Scroll Staff|title=The five must-read books of Bengali literature|url=http://scroll.in/article/654723/the-five-must-read-books-of-bengali-literature|accessdate=24 January 2016|work=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Chaudhuri1990">{{cite book|last=Chaudhuri|first=Sukanta|title=Calcutta, the Living City: The present and future|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGduAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-562586-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Indian & Pakistan Year Book & Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRsdAQAAMAAJ|year=1950|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company|page=54}}</ref>
== Plot ==
The novel is written in [[first-person narrative]], but from four different people's point of view. During India's freedom movement Bilu, an Indian revolutionary is sentenced to death. The novel starts in the jail custody at the last night before the convict is to be hanged. The first chapter is written from that Bilu's perspective, where he narrates his own life and experiences. It also tells the inhuman trials and tortures he faced. The second, third and fourth chapter narrate the same story from his father, mother and brother's perspectives. All of them await the capital punishment while explaining their own thoughts, anxiety and experiences.
== Theme ==
The novel is written in the background of the [[Quit India Movement]] (1942).<ref name="Mācave1976">{{cite book|last=Mācave|first=Prabhākara|title=Four decades of Indian literature: a critical evaluation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_1jAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Chetana Publications|page=99|isbn=9780883868065 }}</ref> It narrates common Bengali people's involvement in India's freedom movement. Satinath Bhaduri had direct experience of contemporary Indian politics and the Quit India movement. He added many autobiographical elements in the plot.<ref name="Trust1997" /><ref>{{cite book|title=Socialist Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JyQsAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Council for Political Studies.|page=117}}</ref>
== Publication ==
The novel was first published in 1945. It was author's debut novel.<ref name="Sharma1985">{{cite book|last=Sharma|first=Satya Deo|title=Thematic Dichotomy of Writings in Indian English, Indology, and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DnEFAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Prakash Book Depot|page=77}}</ref> Right after the publication it became popular among Bengali readers.  Sisir Kumar Das, in his book ''History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy'' wrote that this novel is "one of the finest political novel" written in Bengali.<ref name="Das1991">{{cite book|last=Das|first=Sisir Kumar|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA773|year=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|pages=773–}}</ref> In a 2014 ''Scroll.in'' article, the novel was included in one of the "five must-read books of Bengali literature".<ref name="The five must-read books of Bengali literature" />
== Awards ==
The book received the following awards:
* [[Rabindra Puraskar]] award from the [[West Bengal government]] (1950)<ref name="Rāmakr̥ṣṇan2005">{{cite book|last=Rāmakr̥ṣṇan|first=I. Vi|title=Narrating India: The Novel in Search of the Nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8eZjAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Sahitya Akademi Publications|isbn=978-81-260-2072-0}}</ref>
== References ==
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[[Category:1945 novels]]
[[Category:Bengali-language novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in Bihar]]
[[Category:Novels set in the 1940s]]
[[Category:Political novels]]
[[Category:First-person narrative novels]]
[[Category:Novels with multiple narrators]]
[[Category:Novels about revolutionaries]]