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| author            = [[Mahasweta Devi]]
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'''''Aranyer Adhikar''''' (Rights over the Forest, first published 1977) is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] novel written by [[Mahasweta Devi]].<ref name="TharuLalita1991">{{cite book|author1=Susie J. Tharu|author2=Ke Lalita|title=Women Writing in India: The twentieth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjZYf9Xf9bcC&pg=PA234|year=1991|publisher=Feminist Press at CUNY|isbn=978-1-55861-029-3|pages=234–}}</ref> For this novel Mahasweta Devi received [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite news |title=Google doodle on Mahasweta Devi on her birth anniversary |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/google-doodle-on-mahasweta-devi-on-her-birth-anniversary/article10032213.ece |accessdate=7 September 2018 |work=@businessline |language=en}}</ref> The novel narrates the life and fight of Indian tribal freedom fighter [[Birsa Munda]].<ref name="Devy2002">{{cite book|author=G. N. Devy|title=Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FMF2PL7HgeEC&pg=PA224|year=2002|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-2022-6|pages=224–}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Bengali-language novels]]
[[Category:Sahitya Akademi Award-winning works]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian novels]]



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