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Chapter 4
:
Yule, Henry and A. C. Burnell.
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive.
London: 1886.

Chapter 7
:
 Carey, William.
A Dictionary of the Bengalee Language
, 1825.

Chapter 8
:
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Number 18,” 1937.
One Hundred and One: Poems.
Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1966.

Chapter 9
:
Tagore, Rabindranath. “The Night Express,” 1940.
One Hundred and One: Poems.
Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1966.

Chapter 11
:
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Urvashi,” 1895.
One Hundred and One: Poems.
Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1966.

Chapters 12
,
39
,
42
, and
46
:
Tagore, Rabindranath.
The Home and the World.
Macmillan, 1919. Originally published in Bengali as
Ghare Baire
in 1915.

Chapter 18
:
Travel in India, or City, Shrine and Sea-Beach: Antiquities, Health Resorts and Places of Interest on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway.
Times Press, 1916.

Chapter 31
:
Godden, Rumer.
Bengal Journey: A Story of the Part Played by the Women in the Province, 1939–1945.
Longmans, Green Ltd., 1945.

Chapter 37
:
Porter, Cole, and Robert Fletcher. “Don’t Fence Me In,” originally written for the unproduced film
Adiós, Argentina
in 1934.

Chapter 44
:
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Rahu’s Love,” 1884.
One Hundred and One: Poems.
Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1966.

Additional Bibliography

Banerjee, Bibhutibhusan.
Pather Panchali
(Song of the Road),
originally published by Ranjan Prakashalay in Bengali in 1929, translated by Indiana University Press, 1968.

Bose, Subhas Chandra.
Netaji’s Life and Writing: The Indian Struggle, 1920–34, Vol. 11.
Calcutta: Netaji Publishing Society, Thacker Spinks and Company, 1948. Originally published by Romain Rolland, London, 1936.

Bose, Subhas Chandra.
Netaji Speaks: A Collection of Speeches and Writings, Vol. 1.
Calcutta: Jayashree Prakashan, 1973.

Bose, Subhas Chandra.
Selected Speeches of Subhas Chandra Bose.
New Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1962.

Brush, Stanley Elwood.
Farewell the Winterline: Memories of a Boyhood in India.
Santa Rosa, CA: Chipkali Creations, 2002.

The Calcutta Key
. India-Burma: Information and Education Branch, United States Army, 1945.

Chaudhuri, Nirad C.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
. London: MacMillan Publishers Ltd., 1951.

Cohn, David L.
This Is the Story.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.

Craig, Hazel Innes.
Under the Old School Topee
. London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 1996. Reprinted by author, 1996.

Das, Hari Sadhan.
This Is Midnapur
. Midnapur: Smt. Reba Das, 1999.

Day, Rev. Lal Behari.
Folk-tales of Bengal.
London: MacMillan and Company, 1883.

Dipti’s Calcutta & Howrah Guide with Map
. Calcutta: Dipti Printing and Binding Works, 1963.

Fay, Peter Ward.
The Forgotten Army: India’s Armed Struggle for Independence 1942–1945
. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Forbes, Geraldine Hancock.
Indian Women and the Freedom Movement: A Historian’s Perspective
. Mumbai: Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, 1997.

Lebra, Joyce C.
Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment
. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

Martyn, Margaret.
Married to the Raj.
London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 1992.

Prasad, Bisheshwar, ed.
India and the War: Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War 1939–1945.
Delhi: Manager of Publications, Government of India, 1966.

Ray, Bharati.
From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Roychowdhury, Laura.
The Jadu House: Intimate Histories of Anglo-India.
London: Doubleday, 2000.

Sahgal, Lakshmi (Geraldine Forbes, ed.).
A Revolutionary Life: Memoirs of a Political Activist
. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997.

Sahgal, Manmohini Zutshi (Geraldine Forbes, ed.).
An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life.
New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1994.

Sena, Manikuntala.
In Search of Freedom: An Unfinished Journey.
Stree, Calcutta, 2001, originally published in Bengali as
Shediner Katha
and published by Pabapatra Prakashan in 1982.

Thapar’s Calcutta Pocket Guide, Including Industry Directory.
Calcutta: Thapar Publishing, 1958.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Massey, Sujata.

The sleeping dictionary / Sujata Massey.—First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.

pages cm

1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Passive resistance—India—Fiction. 3. India—Politics and government—1919–1947—Fiction. 4. India—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.A79965S54 2013

813’.54—dc23

2012042498

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CONTENTS

Cast of Characters

Hindi/Bengali/English Glossary

Fragment of a Letter Found by the Arjun Cleaning Agency in 1947 at 22 Middleton Street

Book One: Johlpur

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Book Two: Midnapore

Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8

Book Three: Midnapore

Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17

Book Four: Calcutta

Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50

A Taste of Old Calcutta

Perfect Rice (Bhatt)
Mustard Shrimp (Chingri Bhapey)
Independence Trifle

Readers Group Guide

Introduction
Discussion Questions
Enhance Your Book Group
A Conversation with Sujata Massey

Acknowledgments

About Sujata Massey

Bibliography

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