The ‘Home and the World’ in Iraq 1915-17: Part 1

    Mokkhoda (Mokshada) Debi’s Kalyan Pradeep,     (published 1928) is, in essence, the author’s tribute, as a grandmother, to her daughter’s son, Kalyan, who was a casualty of the Mesopotamian campaign of 1915-16.   Mokkhoda Debi was a minor literary figure in Bengal at the turn of the 19th century. Like Rabindranath Tagore [...]