TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sen,Sukumar
AU  - Nehru, Jawaharlal
TI  - History of Bengali literature
SN  - 8172011075
U1  - 891.44 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sahitya Akademi
KW  - Bengali literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Language and Script
N1  - Originally published: 1979; Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-391) and index; 1. Evolution of the Language and Script -- 2. The Pre-vernacular Background -- 3. Forms of Early Poetry -- 4. Old Bengali Poetry and Mysticism -- 5. The Dark Centuries and the Emergence of the Cult Themes -- 6. From the Fifteenth to the Early Sixteenth Century -- 7. Chaitanya and His Movement -- 8. The New Urge in Literature -- 9. Vaishnava Lyric Songs and Narrative Verse -- 10. The Tradition op Court Patronage -- 11. Narrative Poetry on Candi and Manasa -- 12. The Seventeenth Century -- 13. The Arpakan Poets and the Later Muslim  Writers -- 14. The Eighteenth Century : Its Tendencies and Effects -- 15. Development of Literary Prose -- 16. The Western Stage and the Early Days of the Bengali Drama -- 17. Forerunners of the New Poetry -- 18. Michael Madhusudan Dutt and his Followers -- 19. Prose Fiction and Bankim Candra Chatterji -- 20. The Theatre -- 21. The Romantics -- 22 Rabindranath Tagore -- 23. Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 24. World War to Non-Co-Operation -- 25. Independence movement to another world war

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