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Mitra, Dipika. "Some Special Thinkers of Bengal." International Journal of Science and Social Science Research 2, no. 3 (2024): 45–50. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13955314.

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The history of Bengal and the Bengali nation is quite ancient. The lives and works of many renowned Bengalis have advanced the lifestyle and culture of Bengalis. The economic prosperity of the people of Bengal, which is abundant in natural resources, has allowed them to play a pioneering role in solving various everyday life problems and earning a livelihood. Multiple regions of Bengal, full of rivers, trees, and fruits, have been prosperous for a long time. Since crops grew easily, people became skilled in many tasks. For the peace of the human soul, many Bengali thinkers have introduced new

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CHAKRABORTY, DEBDATTA, and SARBANI BANERJEE. "‘I am Chandalini, and I am Proud of that. You must Accept and Respect it’: Conversatio." Southeast Asian Review of English 61, no. 1 (2024): 227–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol61no1.12.

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This interview with the notable Bengali Dalit woman writer in the realm of Caste and Gender Studies, Kalyani Thakur Charal, encompasses the diverse facets of caste-gender centric issues, caste-based stratification, particularly in connection with the Bengali Dalit community in the context of West Bengal. She puts forward her argument on the matters of caste-gender intersectionality, the impact of patriarchy, and the marginalization of Bengali Dalit women section. This discussion sheds light on the anti-caste struggle, which was prominent in Bengal during the colonial times, the major personas

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Debdatta Chakraborty and Sarbani Banerjee. "Decoding the Migration, Rehabilitation, and the Impact of Caste in the Lives of Bengali Dalit Women Strata in the post-Partition Bengal: Revisiting Kalyani Thakur Charal’s Autobiographical Narrative Ami Keno Charal Likhi, and Novella Andhar Bil." Creative Saplings 2, no. 11 (2024): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2024.2.11.517.

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Based on the reading of Kalyani Thakur Charal’s notable autobiographical narrative Ami Keno Charal Likhi (Why I Sign as Charal,2016) and novella Andhar Bil (2016), this paper intends to analyze the experiences of second-generation Bengali Dalit women refugees in case of the post-Partition West Bengal. The present paper examines the tropes of nostalgia, partition, and rehabilitation as experiences of Bengali Dalit women characters in the post-Partition West Bengal, the notions of migration, remembrance, oppression, and injustice. Through a detailed analysis of both the narratives, this research

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Dey, Tanima. "Making of Bengali Literary Culture in the 18th Century: The Case of Cachar and Tripura." Journal of North East India Studies 9, no. 2 (2019): 12–32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12784282.

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This paper intends to unpack the processes that shaped the contours of Bengali literary culture in Cachar and Tripura during the eighteenth century. In the context of shared political fortunes by Cachar and Tripura with Bengal since the ancient times, the socio-religious, cultural and linguistic similarities of these regions with Bengal were a spontaneous historical process. But eventually patronage extended by the rulers of both Cachar and Tripura resulted in the making of prolific Bengali literary cultures. But this corpus of literature produced beyond the ‘mainland of Bengal’ ar

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Mondal, Purbasha. "Autobiographical Remembering: Memory as Resitance in Bengali Dalit Women’s Narratives." Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne, no. 13 (December 14, 2021): 6–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/jk.2021.13.01.

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This paper makes an attempt to explore how the concept of memory works as a tool of resistance in the narratives of the Bengali Dalit women writers in the Partitioned Bengal. The Bengali Dalit women have been marginalized in different ways, and the history of these women has been neglected. But the atma-katha (life-story) of the Bengali Dalit women seeks to question the accepted official historical record of Bengal. In this paper, I propose to examine the narratives of Dr. Puspa Bairagya and Kalyani Thakur Charal which were chiefly produced in the twenty-first century Bengal and were anti-cast

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Mamud Hassan. "Issue of Dalit Identity and the Partition of Bengal." Creative Launcher 6, no. 5 (2021): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.5.07.

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This paper attempts to present the history of partition of Bengal and the issues of Dalit communities that they faced during and aftermath of partition of India in 1947. It presents the experiences of the ‘Chhotolok’ or Dalits and the sufferings they encountered because of the bifurcation of the Bengal province. The paper deals with the migration process in Bengal side and the treatment of government and higher-class societies towards lower class/caste people in their ‘new homeland’. The paper presents an account of representation of Dalits in Bengali partition narratives and the literature wr

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Goni, Md Osman. "নেপালে বাঙালি মুসলমানদের বসতি: একটি ঐতিহাসিক পর্যালোচনা (Settlement of Bengali Muslims in Nepal: A Historical Perspective)". History and Heritage 1 (31 грудня 2024): 109–20. https://doi.org/10.70775/hnh/v010008.

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The history of Muslim settlement in Nepal is a well-known fact. In 712 AD, the wave of Muhammad bin Qasim's conquest of Indus swept the entire subcontinent. Since then, Sufi saints have arrived in Himalayan Nepal to spread Islam. For business reasons later, many Muslims traveled to Tibet through Nepal to preach Islam. Muslims also infiltrated Nepal through Tibet, south of China. However, the migration of Bengalis to Nepal is a surprising phenomenon. Bengali immigration may have been a factor in the invasion of Nepal by Sultan Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah of undivided Bengal in 1342 AD. Another reason

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Dey, Santanu. "Piety in Print: The Vaishnava Periodicals of Colonial Bengal." Journal of Hindu Studies 13, no. 1 (2020): 30–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiaa003.

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Abstract The voluminous corpus of Bengali Vaishnava periodical literature remains largely untapped in scholarship on Bengali Vaishnavism and colonial Hinduism more broadly. This article explores a range of Bengali Vaishnava periodicals from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to understand the complex ways in which educated Vaishnavas sought to forge points of convergence for Vaishnava culture within the colonial Bengali public sphere. The ensuing investigation will, it is hoped, demonstrate both the centrality and versatility of the role of the periodical in the broad a

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CHATTERJEE, KUMKUM. "Goddess encounters: Mughals, Monsters and the Goddess in Bengal." Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 5 (2013): 1435–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x13000073.

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AbstractThis paper makes a case for exploring the cultural facets of Mughal rule as well as for a stronger engagement with sources in vernacular languages for the writing of Mughal history. Bengal's regional tradition of goddess worship is used to explore the cultural dimensions of Mughal rule in that region as well as the idioms in which Bengali regional perceptions of Mughal rule were articulated. Mangalkavya narratives—a quintessentially Bengali literary genre—are studied to highlight shifting perceptions of the Mughals from the late sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. During the p

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Chattopadhyay, Indrajit. "Chhana Sweets of West Bengal: A Culinary Legacy and C." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 10, no. 2 (2025): 160–64. https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.102.27.

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One of the lasting legacies of the cultural interaction between Portuguese, the earliest of the European settlers, and the Bengalis, was the use of curdled milk to create chhana, a form of fresh curd cheese that became the base for most Bengali sweets. Chhana became the primary ingredient in many iconic Bengali sweets like rasogolla, sandesh and rasomalai. These sweets distinguish Bengali cuisine from the rest of India, where sweets are typically made from thickened milk (kheer), lentils (dal), flour or semolina. The evolution of Bengali chhana sweets has functioned as the cultural marker of a

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Uddin and Nesa. "Muslim Identity, Bengali Nationalism: The use of Islamic and secular Identities in Bangladesh." Journal of Society and Change XIV, no. 4 (2021): 7–14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5501781.

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Abstract In Bangladesh, there seem to be two kinds of nationalism: Bangladeshi and Bengali nationalism. Bengali nationalism has its roots in the ancientc culture and heritage of the Bengali people. Bangladesh and West Bengal  currently share the former Bengali region that was formerly known as Bengal. Bangladesh gained its independence as a result of two distinct historical revolutions. The first liberation was part of Pakistan because of their ideology, which was at the time being controlled by the British. The second liberation from Pakistan was founded on secular Be

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Sarkar, Abhishek. "Rosalind and "Śakuntalā" among the Ascetics: Reading Gender and Female Sexual Agency in a Bengali Adaptation of "As You Like It"." Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 18, no. 33 (2018): 93–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.18.07.

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My article examines how the staging of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare’s play As You Like It is negotiated in a Bengali adaptation, Ananga-Rangini (1897) by the little-known playwright Annadaprasad Basu. The Bengali adaptation does not assume the boy actor’s embodied performance as essential to its construction of the Rosalindequivalent, and thereby it misses several of the accents on gender and sexuality that characterize Shakespeare’s play. The Bengali adaptation, while accommodating much of Rosalind’s flamboyance, is more insistent upon the heteronormative closure and reconfigures the R

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Saymon Zakaria. "প্রাক-আধুনিক বাংলা সাহিত্য-সংস্কৃতির অনন্য এক পণ্ডিত টনি কে. স্টুয়ার Tony K. Stewart, Eminent Scholar of Pre-Modern Bengali Literature and Culture". BHĀBANAGARA: International Journal of Bengal Studies 19, № 23 (2025): 2423–26. https://doi.org/10.64242/bijbs.v19i23.8.

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Professor Tony K. Stewart (February 16, 1954 – October 6, 2024) was a towering figure in the study of pre-modern Bengali literature and culture–widely regarded as the rightful successor to Edward C. Dimock, who first integrated classical and modern Bengali literature into American academia. While many scholars explored specific literary epochs or traditions, Stewart distinguished himself by illuminating the syncretic spiritual and vernacular literary heritage of Bengal, particularly the domains of folk religion, Sufism, and Vaishnavism. His seminal works, including The Final Word : The Caitāny

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Saika, Hossain. "The Quest for Learning: Five Learned Bengali Muslim Women of the Early Twentieth Century." Trivium A multi disciplinary journal of humanities of Chandernagore College 1, no. 1 (2017): 48–59. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13826307.

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Bengali Muslim women in colonial Bengal were among the most disadvantaged, economically impoverished and marginalized section of the society. In the traditional Bengali Muslim society, women were the victims of the age-old bondage and were segregated completely, from the outside world. The so-called Quranic injunction and fatwas imposed on them by the orthodox Mullahs and Maulanas prevented most of the Muslim women from receiving the rudiments of education. Throughout the nineteenth century, there were strong prejudices against Muslim women’s education and even in the early twentieth cen

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BOSE, NEILESH. "Purba Pakistan Zindabad: Bengali Visions of Pakistan, 1940–1947." Modern Asian Studies 48, no. 1 (2013): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x12000315.

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AbstractThis paper details the history of the concept of Pakistan as debated by Bengali intellectuals and literary critics from 1940–1947. Historians of late colonial South Asia and analysts of Pakistan have focused on the Punjab along with colonial Indian ‘Muslim minority’ provinces and their spokesmen like Muhammed Ali Jinnah, to the exclusion of the cultural and intellectual aspects of Bengali conceptions of the Pakistan idea. When Bengal has come into focus, the spotlight has centred on politicians like Fazlul Huq or Hassan Shahid Suhrawardy. This paper aims to provide a corrective to this

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Sengupta, Tiyasha. "Heroes and villains: multimodal identity construction in children’s wartime visual narratives." Multimodal Communication 10, no. 3 (2021): 265–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mc-2021-0011.

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Abstract The article investigates the Self and Other binaries in wartime visual literature published in Bengali-language children’s periodicals in West Bengal, India during the Bangladesh Liberation Struggle 1971. The study applies a critical multimodal framework using the Social Actors Approach and Social Semiotics within the Discourse-Historical Approach. The binaries are defined by the representation and subsequent differentiation of physical, linguistic, and cultural features of the Bengali and non-Bengali social actors and through their actions in the plots. The representation of social a

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Bhattacharya, Binayak. "Seeing Kolkata: Globalization and the Changing Context of the Narrative of Bengali-ness in Two Contemporary Films." Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 73, no. 3 (2020): 559–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asia-2019-0050.

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AbstractThe article engages with the question of an exclusivity, an ‘otherness’ of the Bengali culture, in the available representative modes of Indian cinema. It studies the socio-cultural dynamics through which this ‘otherness’ can be found reorienting itself in recent years in a globalized perspective. It takes two contemporary films, Kahaani (Hindi, 2012) and Bhooter Bhobishyot (Bengali, 2012) to dwell upon. The analysis aims to historicise the construction of a cultural stereotype called ‘Bengali-ness’ in Indian cinema by marking some significant aspects in the course of its historical de

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Papri, Mukherjee. "The History of Itachuna Jamindar Bari, Hooghly District." ADVANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY DISCOVERIES 55, no. 1 (2021): 12–14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4682756.

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The Itachuna Rajbari was built by the ancestors of shri Safallya Narayan kundu. Although the ancestors of the Kundu zamindars came to Bengal on the pretext of Bargi invasion , they started living here permanently. Gradually they began to learn Bengali manners and etiquette. Bengali became their mother tongue in a very short time. Kundu is a well-known Bengali surname although the real surname of these zamindars was not Kundu. Their real title was Kundan. In the middle of the eighteenth century, they built a huge building in the heart of the village of Itachuna in the present Hooghly district,

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banerji, chitrita. "A Sweet Fragrance in Winter." Gastronomica 12, no. 1 (2012): 83–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2012.12.1.83.

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This article is about the syrup derived from the Bengali date palm tree, Phoenix sylvestris, which is processed for use as a sweetener. This sweetener, called khejur gur, is an important item in Bengali gastronomy because of its distinctive aroma and flavor. References to the use of khejur gur and the date palm tree can be found in ancient Sanskrit texts. The trees are tapped in winter, between December and February, a process that requires considerable expertise. The harvested syrup (collected in clay pots suspended from notches cut in the trunk) is boiled down to achieve different consistenc

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Hossain, Muhammad Rahat. "Language Movement of 1952: Background of Independent Bangladesh." Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 13, no. 04 (2025): 62–67. https://doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2025.v13i04.001.

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The Language Movement of 1952 in East Bengal began as a cultural struggle but evolved into a powerful political force that laid the foundation for the independence of Bangladesh. This review traces the historical context of the movement, highlighting how the imposition of Urdu as the sole state language of Pakistan disregarded the linguistic identity of the Bengali-speaking majority. The study explores the series of events, including student protests, government suppression, and the eventual recognition of Bengali as one of the state languages in the 1956 constitution. The article argues that

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Khan, Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan, Ahsan Habib, and Abu B. Siddiq. "Turkic Acculturation and the Emergence of Bengali Identity." CenRaPS Journal of Social Sciences 4, no. 1 (2022): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/cenraps.v4i1.72.

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Bengal is the largest delta in the world. Because of the easy access to natural wealth, many people groups of different ethno-religious backgrounds migrated into Bengal from prehistoric times. Following the conquest of Bengal by the Khalaj descended Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, the Central and West Asian traditions greatly influenced the Delta throughout about 600 years. Although there were migrations of many other groups, primarily the predominance of Turkic traditions encouraged waves of Turk-Bengali acculturations which helped emerge and mature the Bengali identity in the Delta. Later, th

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Chakraborty, Soma Naskar, Talagatoti David Ratna Paul, and Aparna Ray. "Development and Validation of Bengali Mental Health Literacy Assessment Tool (B-MHLAT): An Instrument to Measure Mental Health Literacy in Bengali Adults." Malaysian Journal of Nursing 16, Suppl 1 (2024): 100–110. https://doi.org/10.31674/mjn.2024.v16isupp1.010.

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Background: Mental health literacy therefore refers to the knowledge and perceptions about mental health and mental illnesses and is vital in encouraging people to seek help and in decreasing mental health-related problems. Nevertheless, no instruments have been developed to measure "Mental Health Literacy" among the Bengali-speaking population. The purpose of this research was to extend the Mental Health Literacy Assessment Tool to create a culturally appropriate Bengali Mental Health Literacy Assessment Tool. Methods: The development process began with the creation of an English questionnair

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Tagore, Pramantha. "Songs for the Empress: Queen Victoria in the Music History of Colonial Bengal." Victorian Literature and Culture 52, no. 1 (2024): 61–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150323000827.

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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, music significantly occupied the cultural and social life of the Bengali people. As the epicenter of British political and economic influence in the subcontinent, Calcutta witnessed the emergence of schools offering instruction in Indian and Western art music. The flourishing city housed private and public printing presses, which ensured the circulation and distribution of large numbers of songbooks, manuals, and theoretical treatises on music. The city was also home to a diverse assortment of hereditary music practitioners and occupational speci

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Sen, Jaydip, and Asit Chaudhuri. "Arsenic Exposure through Drinking Water and its Effect on Pregnancy Outcome in Bengali Women." Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology 59, no. 4 (2008): 271–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/10004-1254-59-2008-1871.

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Arsenic Exposure through Drinking Water and its Effect on Pregnancy Outcome in Bengali WomenTwelve districts of the state of West Bengal, India are affected by arsenic (As) and millions of individuals are consuming As-contaminated groundwater. The probable adverse effects of As on pregnancy outcome (stillbirth and miscarriage) are yet to be properly studied. The present investigation is an attempt to understand the effects of As exposure on the pregnancy outcome in Bengali women exposed to As through drinking water and residing in different villages in North 24 Parganas District of West Bengal

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Banerjee, Sarbani. "Reading Bhadralok Cultural Memory, Kitsch And Culture Industry In Ritwik Ghatak’s Films." CINEJ Cinema Journal 11, no. 2 (2023): 21–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2023.422.

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The paper problematizes Ghatak’s Marxist treatment of the Bengali as well as the Brahmanical repertoire of cultural knowledge, for the purpose of carving out a Communist significance of the period. Rather than a recontextualization of traditional myths, the paper reads in this attitude a nostalgic particularistic abstraction of a rich array of aesthetic ideas, which are best appreciated in their diverse cultural context. The paper argues that Ghatak utilizes creative opuses of vast potential to serve political goals, with an aim of strengthening the East Bengali immigrant population in post-Pa

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Firoze Basu. "The “Healing Touch” of Nature: Corresponding Elements in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Jibanananda Das." Creative Launcher 6, no. 1 (2021): 181–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.1.21.

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This paper endeavours to find resonances between Wordsworth's treatment and responses to Nature and Jibanananda's fascination with rural Bengal. A lecturer in English, he tried to bring the West to the Bengali psyche and consciousness utilizing the unique strategy of de-familiarizing the Bengali landscape. In effecting this achievement Jibanananda's familiarity with English poetry is of paramount importance. He has analogical and genealogical similarities with Keats and Wordsworth's particularly Wordsworth, in the celebrations of solitude, of nature.

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Bhattacharya, Dr Abhisek. "Reading Creative Translations of Jibanananda Das’s Bengali Poetry into English: A Journey across the Frontiers of Experiences." ENSEMBLE 3, no. 1 (2021): 129–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.37948/ensemble-2021-0301-a016.

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Indian English literature generally refers to that body of writing, which is produced in the English language by the litterateurs of an Indian origin. It is however, understandable that creative translations should also be located into the corpus of Indian English literature. Historically speaking, what gave the first solid footing to Indian English poetry was Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali, and this came in the form of creative translation. After Rabindranath we find another accomplished poet of twentieth century Bengal to practice creative translation of his Bengali poetry into English. Thi

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Dasgupta, Koushiki. "The Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the First General Election in West Bengal: The Enigma of Hindu Politics in early 1950s." Studies in Indian Politics 8, no. 1 (2020): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023020918063.

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The first general elections proved to be a disaster for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Bengal in terms of its performance and its failure to make the Hindu Bengalis a consolidated political block. Prior to the election, the party had generated immense hopes and aspirations especially among the refugees from East Bengal. Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the leader of the opposition, appeared to be the sole spokesman of the Bengali Hindus and fought the election with a promise to secure the political fate of the Hindu Bengalis, especially the refugees from East Bengal. But very soon the party lost the e

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Dr. Md Humayun Sk. "The Journey of the Dalit Refugees in Bengal: A Comparative Study of Allen Ginsberg and Jatin Bala’s Poetry." Creative Launcher 8, no. 5 (2023): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2023.8.5.09.

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Dalit literature seeks to present the struggles and experiences of the oppressed. Bengali Dalit literature has become a powerful tool for social and political action. It provides counter-narratives that talk about their experiences and realities. Bangla Dalit literature depicts the lives of refugees with sensitivity and empathy, emphasizing the struggles and resilience of those displaced from their homes and communities due to political, social and economic factors. The term “refugee” refers to a person who has been forced to flee their country of origin. A large part of the population had to

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Chakraborty, Swarnendu. "The partition of Bengal in 1947 and The Role of the Hindu MahaSabha." British Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and History 2, no. 1 (2022): 30–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/bjpsh.2022.2.1.5.

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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the English word “De-colonization” means liberation of colonies from their foreign overlords. After the 2nd world war, the De-colonization of the Asia African continent began due to different economic-political-strategic factors. However, in many instances, this process brings partition of an undivided country into 2\3 smaller successor States with forceful mass migration, refugee crisis, loss of monetary and human resources due to violent civil wars between different ethno-religious groups. After the battle of Plessey (1757) granting of Dewani to the Engl

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Haimanti, Mukhoti, and Chakraborty Titiksha. ""Nanabidho" (Myriad): A Rediscovery of Sundry Bengali Identities through Lenses." postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies ISSN: 2456-7507 6, no. 1 (2021): 87–100. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4506964.

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One of the most contested arena of today’s socio-cultural political scenario is the battle between several identity formations, be that individual or microcosms of several individual identities. Hence, when we talk about a Bengali identity per se, it becomes difficult to conjure up a monolithic set of features that is congruous with the term “Bengali”. Various strands of geographic, economic, political factors and their push and pulls have continuously contributed to the carving out of a heterogeneous identity structure that has been constitutive of an abstract “Bangali

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Dr., Mamta Bish. "The 70s Bengal and Bengali Women: A Study of Gauri's Predicament in Lahiri's The Lowland." 70s Bengal and Bengali Women: A Study of Gauri's Predicament in Lahiri's The Lowland 6, no. 5 (2024): 143–50. https://doi.org/10.47311/IJOES.2024.6.5.150.

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Jhumpa Lahiri has been a prominent name among the list of Indian diasporic authors.However, she moved to Rome and decided to write in the Italian language actively;her Bengali Indian origin has left an indelible mark on her upbringing, evident in herwritings for the earlier part of her career as an author. Her delineation of Bengalicharacters, especially in diasporic situations, has claimed global popularity andaccolades for the psychological rendition of the evolution of the Bengali diaspora.Lahiri penned the characters of her English fiction from her vivid memories of hervisits to her homela

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MAZUMDER, TANMOY. "Decolonising Bengali Theatre: A Study of Selim Al Deen’s Kittonkhola and Chaka as Postcolonial Resistance Drama." International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 4, no. 1 (2023): 10–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/ijecls.v4i1.624.

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Selim Al Deen, a prominent figure in Bengali theatre, questions the hegemony of Western forms in literature through his dvaitadvaita (dualistic dualism) theory and fusion theory of art and literature. Modern art and literature in Bengal, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, was shaped by European art and literature in its form, structure, and content. Modernity imposed literary styles that undermined the potential of Bengal’s own ancient literary traditions, which include the rich rural forms of literature, such as jatragan, palagan, puthi, pachali, geetnatyo, natyogeet, kothokota, e

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Bhattacharya, Binayak. "In the Footsteps of ‘Lenin’: Peace, Struggle and the Progressive Intelligentsia in Colonial Bengal." Studies in People's History 8, no. 2 (2021): 241–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23484489211041151.

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The article begins with an obscure Bengali poem ‘Lenin’ published in 1924. Tracing the publication and its consequences, it explores the transmission of progressive ideas from Europe to Bengal, following the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Subsequently, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the Second World War marked a significant juncture in this trajectory, where the rhetoric of ‘peace’, championed during the years after the First World War, developed into a new relationship with popular struggles in Bengali progressive cultural practice.

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Dr.Madan Chandra Karan. "Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar: A Revolutionary in Society and Literature." International Journal for Multidimensional Research Perspectives 3, no. 4 (2025): 96–98. https://doi.org/10.61877/ijmrp.v3i4.269.

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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) was a towering figure of 19th century Bengal, who emerged as a pioneer in education, social reform, and Bengali literature. His contributions revolutionized society by advocating for women’s rights, promoting education for all, and simplifying Bengali prose for the common people. This article explores his multifaceted legacy, contextualizing his work in the socio-political fabric of colonial India. Through an analysis of his literary and reformist contributions, this paper highlights his enduring influence on Indian society and global intellectual history.

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Jahan, Jennifar. "Semiotic Studies in Bangladesh: An Analysis of Existing Realities and Prospects." Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics 4, no. 7-8 (2014): 43–62. https://doi.org/10.70438/dujl/478/0003.

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Semiotics plays a vital role in analyzing the world of signs around us. The major focus of this article is to discuss the progress of semiotics in Bangladesh. This study emphasizes the existing literature on semiotics in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. It shows that most of the existing studies in this language focus primarily on literary semiotics. At the same time, relevant theories and terminologies on semiotics discussed by Bengali semioticians along with their initiatives to interpret some Bengali cultural artifacts have also been discussed here.

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Prasad Adhikary, Ramesh. "Reform and Change in Early 20th Century Bengali Society: A Study of Chattopadhyay's Novel Nishkriti." Inverge Journal of Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (2023): 51–71. https://doi.org/10.63544/ijss.v2i1.22.

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The goal of this research is to examine the societal reforms and modifications that took place in early 20th-century Bengal as a result of the flourishing Bengali Renaissance, as portrayed in Chattopadhyay's novel Nishkriti. The study technique included a qualitative analysis of Nishkriti with an emphasis on finding and evaluating themes connected to societal reforms and transformations in early 20th-century Bengal. To gather relevant data from the novel and conduct a thorough analysis of it, the research employed a content analysis technique. The study discovered that Nishkriti depicts a vari

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Mohua, Mafruha. "Flowers in a Begging Bowl: Tagore, Eliot, and Bengali Modernism." Modernist Cultures 13, no. 2 (2018): 212–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2018.0206.

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In the mid-1920s Bengalis found themselves in an atmosphere of political upheavals, of communal and labour riots, and of dire poverty. Amidst this destructive environment a fervent group of young poets felt that the pressures of the modern age required a new poetics. Although anxieties stemming from economic instability and political turmoil contributed to this new poetics, this group of poets, who identified themselves as modernists, found in the poetry of Eliot a reality which seemed to them to be a true reflection of their world. This article looks at that pivotal moment in Bengali poetry w

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Devendra, Verma, Neelam Bansal Dr., and Satyanarain Nai Dr. "Role of Bengali Women in Indian Freedom Fighting : A Historical Analysis." Siddhanta's International Journal of Advanced Research in Arts & Humanities 1, no. 6(1) (2024): 167–81. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13334727.

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<strong> </strong>The history of women’s movements in the Indian Freedom Fighting has an significant contribution. The presented research paper attempts a detailed study of the renowned as well as Unsung Bengali Women in Freedom struggle of India. This study focuses on active participation of Bengali Women along with men in Freedom struggle specially after 1920 till Independence. Their dedication and active participation towards freedom raises the awareness and create the space for women for making India free from the British colonial rule. Bengali Women bravely and s

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Ahmed, Riya, Bijoy Krishna Panda, and Muktipada Sinha. "Adaptation and validation of academic resilience scale in Bengali." International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) 14, no. 2 (2025): 947. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v14i2.30113.

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The purpose of the current study was to adapt and validate the Academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30) in the context of West Bengal and other Bengali-speaking regions. The research included a total of 628 participants. The data analysis occurred in three stages. Initially, confirmatory factor analysis was employed to assess the factorial validity of the Bengali version of ARS-30 scale, revealing a poor fit for the original three-factor model. Subsequently, further exploratory factor analysis (EFA) suggested a more suitable two-factor structure. In the third stage, this newly derived two-factor str

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Sengupta, Rituparna. "Questioning the Culture of Food and Cuisine in Colonial Bengal: Reading Select Cookbooks." Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies (ISSN 2455 6564) Vol. VI, Issue 2 (July 15, 2021): 87–111. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5105227.

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The Bengali cuisine in the late 19th century was hybrid in nature under the influence of West. It would be a significant call to understand it’s making, the very production of the hybrid space in the domesticity of the Bengali kitchen, accommodating the politics of gastronomy in simulating the brand of ‘bangaliana’. The introductions of professional cookbooks in the household reflect this transfusion space as well as determine the platter, broadly the food culture in Bengal. This paper would take this drifting period between 1883 to 1907, precisely from the first publication

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Jahan, Fairooz, and Taskia Haq Lyric. "Fairs and Females: A Socio-cultural Perspective of 19th and 20th Century Bengal." Dhaka University Studies 79, no. 1-2 (2023): 175–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.62296/dus202212011.

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Abstract: Fair or Mela has been an integral part of Bengali culture since time immemorial. A fair is generally a conglomeration of people in a festive arrangement for buying and selling goods centering on religious or other special occasions at a specific time and a place. Fair was an integral part of colonial Bengal’s socio-cultural and economic spheres as well. Numerous fairs used to be held in 19th and 20th century Bengal for various reasons which concerned seasonal harvesting, religious festivals, marketing, occasional cultural events, promoting entertainment including traditional games an

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Anirban, Banerjee. "The Temple Village of Maluti: A Re-appraisal of Bengali Identity and Culture from the Margin." postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies ISSN: 2456-7507 6, no. 1 (2021): 131–46. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4506993.

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While defining the Bengali identity and culture, most of the people often simplify it and, in their replies, we find some recurrent terms, like, “Maachh Bhaat” (fish with boiled rice), “Robi Thakur”, “Durga Puja” and “Rasogolla”. But, is the Bengali identity only limited to these terms! Well, those above-mentioned terms do represent some facets of Bengali culture, but limiting the entire culture within those terms, simplifying the identity is basically diminishing the complex Bengali culture and making the other facets of culture obsolete. For un

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Hamid, Md Abdul, Eteka Sultana Tumpa, Johora Akter Polin, Jabir Al Nahian, Atiqur Rahman, and Nurjahan Akther Mim. "Bengali Slang detection using state-of-the-art supervised models from a given text." Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 12, no. 4 (2023): 2381–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/beei.v12i4.4743.

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Almost all Bengalis who own smartphones also have social media accounts. People from different regions occasionally employ regional Slang that is unfamiliar to outsiders and confuses the meaning of the sentence. Nearly all languages can now be translated thanks to modern technology, but only in very basic ways, which is a concern. Bengali Slang terms are difficult to translate due to a dearth of rich corpora and frequently occurring new Slang terms developed by people, making it impossible for speakers of other languages to understand the context of a sentence in which Slang is used. We develo

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Hamid, Md Abdul, Eteka Sultana Tumpa, Johora Akter Polin, Jabir Al Nahian, Atiqur Rahman, and Nurjahan Akther Mim. "Bengali Slang detection using state-of-the-art supervised models from a given text." Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 12, no. 4 (2023): 2381–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/eei.v12i4.4743.

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Almost all Bengalis who own smartphones also have social media accounts. People from different regions occasionally employ regional Slang that is unfamiliar to outsiders and confuses the meaning of the sentence. Nearly all languages can now be translated thanks to modern technology, but only in very basic ways, which is a concern. Bengali Slang terms are difficult to translate due to a dearth of rich corpora and frequently occurring new Slang terms developed by people, making it impossible for speakers of other languages to understand the context of a sentence in which Slang is used. We develo

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BHATTACHARYA, Prodosh, and Abhirup MASCHARAK. "”Dracula” and Dracula in Bengal and in Bengali." Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies 14 (63), Special Issue (2022): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pcs.2021.63.14.3.6.

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This paper, after listing some translations of Stoker’s novel into Bengali, chooses to focus on two adaptations which totally Indianize the novel and its characters, particularly the titular antagonist, placing them, in one case, in newly-independent India and Calcutta, and in the other, in an India and a Calcutta around two decades after the independence of 1947. In the process, the vampire is queered in both adaptations, and, in the earlier one, so are its human opponents, whereas the later adaptation follows a more homophobic opposition of a queer alien and unambiguously heterosexual humans

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Cantú, Keith. "Amoonlit Night: Fairy Practice in the Two Bengals." Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 19, no. 2-3 (2024): 227–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2024.a957213.

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Abstract: This article investigates a topic seldom discussed in either Indology or comparative mythology, namely the popular practice of conversing with spirits called “fairy” or “pori” (Bengali parī ) in the folklore of the two Bengals (Bangladesh and West Bengal, India). Using a combination of textual, linguistic, and ethnographic data, it shows that fairy-conversations are a culturally entangled site in which the phenomenon of speaking with spirits can readily be perceived and engaged. Beginning with some etymological and historical considerations of the Bengali word parī , including its co

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Das, Rituparna. "Haun-Maun-Khaun." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 7, no. 2 (2020): 229–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v7i2.454.

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This paper offers a postcolonial reading of some Bengali fairy tales, including selections from Folk-Tales of Bengal (the 1883 collected edition by Reverend Lal Behari Dey); Thakurmar Jhuli (Grandmother's Bag Of Stories), a collection of Bengali fairy tales by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1907); and Bengal Fairy Tales, a 1920 edited volume by F. B. Bradley-Birt (a work by the British diplomat serving in India, which alludes frequently to Mitra Majumder’s text). It interprets the symbols and stalk images used in these texts in terms of the relationship of coloniser versus colonised. It argues

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MANJAPRA, KRIS. "FROM IMPERIAL TO INTERNATIONAL HORIZONS: A HERMENEUTIC STUDY OF BENGALI MODERNISM." Modern Intellectual History 8, no. 2 (2011): 327–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244311000217.

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This essay provides a close study of the international horizons ofKallol, a Bengali literary journal, published in post-World War I Calcutta. It uncovers a historical pattern of Bengali intellectual life that marked the period from the 1870s to the 1920s, whereby an imperial imagination was transformed into an international one, as a generation of intellectuals born between 1885 and 1905 reinvented the political category of “youth”. Hermeneutics, as a philosophically informed study of how meaning is created through conversation, and grounded in this essay in the thought of Hans Georg Gadamer,

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Mohamed Ali, Halimah. "A Review of the Folk Tales of Bengal." International Journal of Social Science Research 11, no. 2 (2023): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijssr.v11i2.21093.

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Lal Behari Dey was a Bengali Indian. He was journalist and converted to Christianity. After his conversion he became a missionary. He wrote profoundly in English and edited several magazines. This paper discusses Lal Behari Dey’s collection of Bengali folktales titled Folk Tales of Bengal. Four tales are chosen to be analyzed. They are The Indigent Brahman, The Ghost Brahman, A Ghostly Wife and The Story Of A Brahmadaitya. These tales are analysed using Vladimir Propp’s theory of the function of the dramatic personae. The similarities between the stories will also be determined in this reading

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