Hajar Churashir Maa
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Hajar Churashir Maa is a landmark Bengali novel by Mahasweta Devi that portrays a mother's political awakening amid the Naxalite movement and state repression in 1970s India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hajar Churashir Maa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7306280 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hajar Churashir Maa Context triple: [Mahasweta Devi, notableWork, Hajar Churashir Maa]
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Hasbaya
Hasbaya is a historic town in southern Lebanon known for its strategic location near Mount Hermon and its traditional Druze and Christian communities.
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Ḥimṣ
Ḥimṣ is an alternative transliteration of Homs, a major city in western Syria known for its historical significance and role in the Syrian conflict.
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Hajar
Hajar is a revered figure in Islamic tradition, known as the wife of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) and the mother of Prophet Isma'il (Ishmael), whose faith and perseverance are commemorated in the rituals of Hajj.
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Tharwa
Tharwa is a small rural village in the Australian Capital Territory, located south of Canberra near the Murrumbidgee River.
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Tihamah
Tihamah is a low-lying coastal plain along the Red Sea in western Arabia, known historically as a hot, arid region encompassing parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hajar Churashir Maa Target entity description: Hajar Churashir Maa is a landmark Bengali novel by Mahasweta Devi that portrays a mother's political awakening amid the Naxalite movement and state repression in 1970s India.
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A.
Hasbaya
Hasbaya is a historic town in southern Lebanon known for its strategic location near Mount Hermon and its traditional Druze and Christian communities.
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B.
Ḥimṣ
Ḥimṣ is an alternative transliteration of Homs, a major city in western Syria known for its historical significance and role in the Syrian conflict.
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C.
Hajar
Hajar is a revered figure in Islamic tradition, known as the wife of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) and the mother of Prophet Isma'il (Ishmael), whose faith and perseverance are commemorated in the rituals of Hajj.
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D.
Tharwa
Tharwa is a small rural village in the Australian Capital Territory, located south of Canberra near the Murrumbidgee River.
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E.
Tihamah
Tihamah is a low-lying coastal plain along the Red Sea in western Arabia, known historically as a hot, arid region encompassing parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bengali-language novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Indian leftist literature
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postcolonial Indian literature ⓘ |
| author | Mahasweta Devi ⓘ |
| centralCharacter | Sujata ⓘ |
| centralCharacterRole | mother of a Naxalite youth ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| explores |
family and ideology
ⓘ
gender and politics ⓘ memory and mourning ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Govind Nihalani ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationLanguage | Hindi ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist literature
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political novel ⓘ social realist novel ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
key text on the Naxalite movement in Indian fiction
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landmark work in Bengali literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Naxalite movement
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linked to:
Maoist insurgency in India
class struggle ⓘ left-wing radicalism ⓘ mother–child relationship ⓘ police brutality ⓘ political awakening ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ state repression ⓘ |
| movementDepicted |
Naxalbari uprising aftermath
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Naxalite movement ⓘ
linked to:
Maoist insurgency in India
|
| narrativeFocus |
a mother’s political consciousness
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state violence against dissidents ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Bengali ⓘ |
| portrays |
custodial torture
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enforced disappearances ⓘ extra-judicial killings ⓘ political disillusionment ⓘ solidarity with political prisoners ⓘ urban middle-class engagement with radical politics ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| setInPlace |
Kolkata
ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
West Bengal ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | Mother of 1084 ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | the corpse number of the son in the morgue ⓘ |
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Subject: Hajar Churashir Maa Description of subject: Hajar Churashir Maa is a landmark Bengali novel by Mahasweta Devi that portrays a mother's political awakening amid the Naxalite movement and state repression in 1970s India.
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