confronted the British with the weapon of nonviolence

Nonviolence

Nonviolence has two meanings. It can refer, first, to a general philosophy of abstention from violence because of moral or religious principle It can refer to the behaviour of people using nonviolent action Nonviolence has two (closely related) meanings. (1) It can refer, first, to a general...

, and he condemned armed militancy and terrorist tactics adopted by some freedom fighters like Khudiram Bose

Khudiram Bose

Khudiram Bose was a Bengali revolutionary, one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement...

 and Surya Sen

Surya Sen

Surya Sen was a prominent Bengali freedom fighter, an Indian independence activist and the chief architect of anti-British freedom movement in Chittagong, Bengal...

.

Film adaptation

The novel was later adapted into a film, Debi Chowdhurani in 1974, directed by Dinen Gupta, starring Suchitra Sen

Suchitra Sen

Suchitra Sen ; or Rama Dasgupta , is an Indian actress who acted in several Bengali films. In particular, the movies in which she paired opposite another legend in Bengali films, Uttam Kumar, became classics in the history of Bengali cinema. She now lives a life of a recluse rarely making any...

 in the lead role, with Ranjit Mullick

Ranjit Mullick

Ranjit Mullick is a prominent Bengali film actor. He studied at the Asutosh College and later at the Shyamaprasad College of the University of Calcutta.He started his career with acclaimed Bengali director Mrinal Sen's film Interview...

 as Brajeswar, Kali Banerjee

Kali Banerjee

Kali Banerjee was an Indian film actor, who worked in the 1950s-70s in Bengali cinema. Most known for his work with film directors like Satyajit Ray's Parash Pathar and Ritwik Ghatak's Nagarik and Ajantrik ....

 as Haraballabh, Basanta Chowdhury as Bhabani Pathak.

In Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

's 1966 movie Nayak, the plot involves a storyline where the protagonist gets snubbed by a senior actor while enacting Devi Chaudhurani. The protagonist was playing the role of Braja and the senior actor was playing the role of Haraballabh.