Sanjogita

Sanjogita (1st Published 1903) is a monumental work written by K. K. Sinha. This is the first historical novel written in English in India, the first being S.C. Dutt's The Times of Yore. We see the handling of history for nationalistic purpose for the first time in the Indo-Anglian fiction.
 
Sanjogita was commented on by Glasgow Herald in the following terms: "The author in a covering letter claims indulgence on the score of his having written a book in a foreign language. But his diction needs no apology." G. P. Sarma claims to have brought the novel to light for the first time in the book titled "Nationalism in Indo-Anglian Fiction."
 
Sanjogita is based on the familiar story of Sanjogita, the daughter of King Jeychand. In the Preface, the author disclosed his objectives while writing the Preface in third person. Sinha says, "The author has attempted to describe...the India of the pre-Mohammedan period, the India on the eve of the Mohammedan conquest, to remind his countrymen of the glory and greatness of the ancestors, to draw their attention to the direct causes of their fall, to show up the glaring evils of disunion."
 
Read more to find the story of Sanjogita, and her life and times in India. Read an enchanting and exhilerating tale of wars and conquests, of love and romance, through the eyes of Sanjogita, and not through the eyes of Prithviraj Chauhan, nor through the eyes of Chand Bardai.