About the Book FROM THE WINNER OF THE HINDU PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018 The subject of this powerful novel is the mushrooming of small factories for nothing but profit in suburban and rural Bengal. These factories owned by petty, ruthless capitalists and profiteers care not one jot for the local communities, culture or economy, and do nothing to improve the deplorable working conditions of the poor men and women they employ. Notun Jannajuddha tells the story of a few heroes who emerge out of a resistance of a group of ordinary people against an illegal liquor factory.