In an 1872 memoir in this language, the author learns how to read by scratching letters on a blackened kitchen wall after stealing her son’s handwriting practice sheets. In a novel in this language, the hero sees statues of Mother-as-she-was, as-she-is, and as-she-will-be in an “abbey of bliss” held by rebel monks. In a novel in this language, a woman nicknamed “Queen Bee” steals rolls of gold sovereigns from her husband’s safe. The title alcoholic of a novella in this language dies on his childhood sweetheart’s doorstep after leaving a courtesan. In a novel in this language, a campaign against foreign goods is led by an amoralist who loves the song Vande Mātaram and charms the pacifist Nikhil’s wife Bimala. For 10 points, Devdas and The Home and the World were written in what language during a “Renaissance” that included Rabindranath Tagore ■END■
ANSWER: Bengali [or Bangla; accept Bengali Renaissance] (The first line refers to My Life by Rassundari Devi. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote the song Vande Mātaram for his novel Anandamath. Devdas is by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.)
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