Na Hanyate

Her father was very proud of his daughter's intelligence and provided her with a liberal education unthinkable during that time in India.

[4] Shortly after it was translated into French and published with the title La Nuit Bengali, it became a huge success.

[5] Maitreyi Devi's father found out about the book during his 1938-39 Europe tour and passed the information to his daughter upon returning home.

[4] Five years after her death in 1989, the University of Chicago Press published it in English titled Bengal Nights.

Taken together, the New York Times describes the two novels as "an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide."

The novel was loosely adapted as the 1999 Hindi language film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.