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The playwright and poet, Michael Madhusudan Datta is easily one of the most important and controversial literary figures of nineteenth-century South Asia-characterized by radical socio cultural transformation. Despite countless discussions by commentators and biographers he remains an enigma among the literary giants who straddled nineteenth-century Bengal. By demystifying Datta's conversion to Christianity and by debunking myths of disinheritance, the alleged 'desertion' of his wife, misogyny, womanizing, alcoholism, and British sycophancy, Maligned Maverick re-examines the life and work of the pioneer of modern Bangla literature. This book delves into unexplored areas of his writings and quotes profusely from poems, plays, letters and articles, including Michael's journalistic writings and his best-known controversial English prose piece The Anglo-Saxon and the Hindu, providing new insights into the mind of the maverick genius.

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Nandan Dasgupta is a Delhi-based attorney-at-law, and has edited bilingual (English and Bengali) literary magazines for over a decade. His publications include, Meghnad Ramayani (2019), an annotated Bengali prose iteration of Michael Madhusudan Datta's magnum opus Meghnadbadh Kavya (The Ballad of the Slaying of Meghnad). His articles on Michael's literary works have been published in various journals. Some of his translations of Datta's works into Bengali are included in Betrayed by Hope: A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt (2020).

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