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{{Short description|1974 Bengali novel}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}
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| name = Hajar Churashir Maa
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| image = File:Hajar Churashir Maa.jpg
| caption = ''Hajar Churashir Maa'' front cover
| author = [[Mahasweta Devi]]
| cover_artist = Khaled Chaudhury
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| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
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| publisher = ''Karuna Prakashani'', [[Kolkata]]
| release_date = 1974
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]])
| isbn = 978-81-8437-055-3
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'''''Hajar Churashir Maa''''' (''No. 1084's Mother'') is a [[1974 in literature|1974]] [[Bengali language|Bengali]] novel written by [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] winner [[Mahasweta Devi]].<ref name="hcm3"/> It was written in 1974 on the backdrop of the [[Naxalite]] revolution in the Seventies.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060205/asp/look/story_5797945.asp Word power] [[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]]. Published Sunday, 5 February 2006. Retrieved 17 July 2012</ref><ref name="hcm1"/><ref name="hcm2">[http://www.parabaas.com/bookstore/bookpage/Mahasweta_Devi_HajarChurashir.html ''Hajar Churashir Maa''] Retrieved 17 July 2012</ref>

==Overview==
''Hajar Churashir Maa'' (means Mother of 1084) is story of a mother (Sujata) whose son (Brati), corpse number 1084<ref name="hcm4"/> in the [[morgue]], was brutally killed by the state because of his [[ideology]] of advocating the brutal killing of class enemies, collaborators with the State and counter-revolutionaries within the Party. The story starts on the eve of Brati's death anniversary when Sujata recollects her son starting from his birth. She meets Brati's close accomplice and tries to justify Brati's actions and his [[revolution]]ary mentalities. Throughout the story she is portrayed as a strong woman who fought against the odds. She is advised to forget her son, as people like her son are what are often called "''cancerous growth on the body of [[democracy]]''".<ref>Mahasweta Devi. ''Hajar Churashir Maa''.Karuna Prakashani (1974) p 31.</ref> It's a story of a mother as she relives, years later, the death of her son in the [[Naxalite movement|political upheaval]] that left almost no home untouched.<ref name="hcm1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100314161258/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2010/03/07/stories/2010030750020100.htm THE SIXTY-YEAR JOURNEY: BHASHA LITERATURE ] [[The Hindu]]. Published Sunday, 7 March 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2012</ref> ''Hajar Churashir Maa'' also portrays the other faces of the human stories that emanated from the restless political adventure of the vibrant Bengali youth, which was ruthlessly cowed by the then [[Congress]] government until the [[Communist Party of India|Communist Party]] displaced them and who then again themselves ruthlessly cowed their opponents, the same Bengali youth.<ref>[http://www.bengalibooksonline.com/author-profile.php?author_id=93 Bengali Books Online. Author Profile - Mahasweta Devi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923183515/http://www.bengalibooksonline.com/author-profile.php?author_id=93 |date=23 September 2015 }} Retrieved 17 July 2012</ref>

==Characters==
* Sujata: Main [[protagonist]] and a ''modern'' strong mother.
* Brati: [[Rebellion|Rebel]] and son of Sujata.<ref>[http://www.epw.in/book-reviews/women-and-violence.html Women and Violence by Sudeshna Chakravarti] Book review of ''Women Writing Violence: The Novel and Radical Feminist Imaginaries''. [[Economic and Political Weekly]]. Vol - XLIX No. 3, 18 January 2014</ref>
* Dibyanath: Husband of Sujata and seen as same type of people against whom Brati fought.
* Nandani : girlfriend of Brati

==Film adaptation==
[[Govind Nihalani]] made this novel to a film called ''[[Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa]]'' in 1998.<ref name="hcm3">{{cite news | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/jul/28maha.htm | title='Through her writing, you get to hear the voice of a community that is otherwise voiceless' | publisher=Rediff news | access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="hcm2"/><ref name="hcm4">[http://www.rediff.com/entertai/1998/mar/23haz.htm Of death and resurrection] Rediff news. Retrieved 17 July 2012</ref>''Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa'' won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi]].

==Award==
Mahasweta Devi got the [[Jnanpith Award]] in 1996 for this book,<ref name="hcm4"/><ref>[http://jnanpith.net/page/jnanpith-laureates JNANPITH LAUREATES] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218122436/http://www.jnanpith.net/page/jnanpith-laureates |date=18 February 2012 }} Retrieved 18 July 2012</ref> which she received from [[South Africa]]n freedom fighter and president [[Nelson Mandela]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121106002408/http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/clippings.nsf/(docid)/EA23421C149F1EAB6525694200313C9D Mandela presents Jnanpith award to Mahasveta Devi] [[The Times of India]]. Published 29 March 1997. Record Number : A0080925. Retrieved 18 July 2012</ref>

*{{ISBN|8184370555}} (''Karuna Prakashani'', [[Kolkata]]-9)
*{{ISBN|978-81-8437-055-3}} (''Karuna Prakashani'', [[Kolkata]]-9)<ref name="hcm5">[http://www.flipkart.com/hajaar-churasir-maa-8184370555/p/itmdyuthzgbembz7 Hajaar Churasir Maa(Hardcover, Bengali)] [[Flipkart]].com. Retrieved 18 July 2012</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100326080914/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyDeviMah.htm Biography of Mahasweta Devi] Retrieved 17 July 2012
* [http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Devi.html Emory University English department] ''emory.edu''. Retrieved 29 July 2012
* [http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?202850 One Of A Rare Tribe] ''outlookindia.com''. Retrieved 29 July 2012
* Roy, Pinaki. "''Mother of 1084'': A Chronicle of Deadly Times". ''Mahasweta Devi's 'Mother of 1084': Critical Readings and Rereadings''. Eds. Sarkar, J., and S. Debnath. [[Kolkata]]: [[Books Way]], 2013 ({{ISBN|978-93-81672-54-9}}). pp. 45–56.
* Roy, Pinaki. "Mahasweta Devi’s ''Mother of 1084'': Rereading the Narrative of Protest". ''Labyrinth'' (I.S.S.N. 0976-0814), 4 (4), October 2013: 12-22
* https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000127/http://www.thelabyrinthjournal.com/pdfs/Labyrinth%20ISSN%200976-0814%20Vol.4%20No.4.pdf)

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