History of Social Conflict and Social Change: Context Tarashankar Banerjee's Ganadevta and Hansuli Banker Upakatha/ সামাজিক দ্বন্দ্ব ও সমাজ পরিবর্তনের ইতিহাস : প্রসঙ্গ তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের গণদেবতা ও হাঁসুলি বাঁকের উপকথা

Abstract

History is currently conducting research on various subjects while becoming 'objective' and 'fact-based'. According to the writings of the British and the words of Marx, Indian society was stuck. They could not notice any changes in Indian society. Society or human history cannot stand still in one place. The history of rural Bengal society was not written in that way, so it did not come up in the history of conflicts and changes in rural society. To understand the changes in rural society, we need to know about the small time and personal time of human society. Tarashankar Banerjee is the kind of writer who was able to understand rural society directly and deeply. He easily mixed with the people of rural Bengal society and collected oral stories to write history-based society-centric literature. Writing the history of the form and transformation of society is a favourite subject of Tarashankar's literature. The field in which the history of the form and transformation of society is studied, studied, and widely observed is feudal society. The background of Ganadevat is vast - although it is based on a homogeneous society, the living internal conflict of the ancient Indian caste-based and economically stratified social classes in the process of shaping and transforming society has acquired dimensional scope as it is included in the novel Ganadevat-Panchagram. On the one hand, the seeds of transformation that arose within society due to socio-economic influences, on the other hand, the fruits of the newly introduced civic culture, the widespread influence of the politics of nationalism and its programs, have created a tremor in the basic values ​​of feudal and rural society everywhere - Ganadevat-Panchagram is its artistic history. In the novel Ganadevat-Panchagram, Tarashankar, not being an economist, witnesses the role of money as a driving force in the transformation of a society that has changed under the dictates of the religion of the time. In the first part of the novel, starting from Ganadevat, published in a contemporary newspaper called Chandimandap, to the end of Panchagram, we observe the inevitable influence of the religion of the time on the process of transformation of society. Although the Hansuli Banker Upakatha is set in the world of primitive fables of a particular regional community, how has the influence of the new era implemented the theory and truth of social change in the fable-based life of that community? Tarashankar Banerjee's experience of time and society and his experience of political consciousness and enlightenment can be called a new horizon in the field of writing social history. The novel "Ganadevata and Hansuli Banker Upakatha " has achieved a new dimension in the artistic expression of the end of feudal society, the rise of capitalist society, and social conflicts. From a literary point of view, the novels ‘Ganadevata and Hansuli Banker Upakatha’ can be called invaluable references to time and social life, which are written based on a deep analysis of the basic structure of society, the position of classes in rural society, their behaviour, and their way of life.