Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor in the Department of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. His areas of expertise include nineteenth-century Bengal, intellectual history, and postcolonial and cultural studies. His most recent monographs include The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude (2021), and Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century (2023). He has also edited and annotated a collection of rare nineteenth-century texts in Bangla titled Unish Shataker Keranikatha: Sotik Kerani Darpan o Kerani Puran (2021).Aparna Chaudhuri is Assistant Professor of English at Ashoka University.Barnita Bagchi is Chair and Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Amsterdam.Brian A. Hatcher is Packard Professor of Theology in the Department of Religion at Tufts University.Fayeza Hasanat teaches at the English Department of the University of Central Florida, USA.Kunal Basu is an author and translator.Saikat Majumdar is an author and translator.Sohana Manzoor is a Bangladeshi writer and academic.

• Introduction Note on the Text and Translations Note on the Contributors Note on the Bengali Calendar and Seasons Select Bibliography A Chronology of Rabindranath Tagore Map SELECTED SHORT STORIES Debts and Liabilities The Postmaster The Renunciation Mahamaya Offering and Retribution The Conclusion The Judge The Professor Jewel-Bereft A House Divided The First Look The Neighbour Yajneshwar Plans a Wedding Pride s Fall The Tutor Keeping the Vow The Nights Towards the End The Devotee The Painter Bad Name Appendix: Titles, Chronology, and Place of First Publication of the Stories in this Volume Explanatory Notes