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“Subjects,” “Liberty,” and “Equity”: Queen Victoria's Proclamations and Bengali Writers

“…Scotland Yard profiled Sasadhar's customers at the London bookshop and tracked his association with the Indian Progressive Writers' Association, whose secretary, Pramode Ranjan Sengupta, was an employee in the London bookshop. 45 All this might appear irrelevant gossip, but the gossip may have a plausible basis. Ghafur returns the heated answer to the zamindar's messenger alluding to the evenhanded justice promised by Victoria, Sasadhar's translation skips any mention of the queen or her reign.…”