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Bengali Culture Over a Thousand Years

Author : Ghulam Murshid
Publisher : Niyogi Books
ISBN 13 : 9386906120
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Bengali Culture Over a Thousand Years written by Ghulam Murshid and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, literature, music and other intellectual expressions of a particular society are together regarded as the culture of that society. Ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular people or society are also its ‘culture’. Contrary to what we think, it is not easy to describe ‘culture’, nor is it easy to write the cultural history. Writing the history of Bengali culture is even more difficult because Bengali society is truly plural in its nature, made even more so by its political division. The two main religious communities that share this culture are often more aware of the differences between them than the similarities. Nonetheless, the people remain bound by history and a shared language and literature. Ghulam Murshid’s Bengali Culture over a Thousand Years is the first non-partisan and holistic discussion of Bengali culture. Written for the general reader, the language is simple and the style lucid. It shows how the individual ingredients of Bengali culture have evolved and found expression, in the context of political developments and how certain individuals have moulded culture. Above all, the book presents the identity and special qualities of Bengali culture. The book was originally published in Bengali in Dhaka in 2006. This is the first English translation.

Bengali Language and Culture

Author : Afia Dil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789842003745
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Bengali Language and Culture written by Afia Dil and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Two Traditions of the Bengali Language

Author : Afia Dil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Two Traditions of the Bengali Language written by Afia Dil and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language

Author : Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language written by Suniti Kumar Chatterji and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal

Author : Pranab Chatterjee
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433108204
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal written by Pranab Chatterjee and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of Sanskritization. Centuries of invasions (1204-1757) resulted most notably in the Islamization of Bengal. Often there were conflicts between Sanskritization and Islamization. Later colonization of Bengal by Britain (1757) led to a process of Anglicization, which created a new middle class in Bengal that, in turn, created a form of elitism among the Bengali Hindu upper caste. After British rule ended (1947), Bengali culture lost its elitist status in South Asia and has undergone severe marginalization. Political instability and economic insufficiency, as reflected by many quantitative and qualitative indicators, are common and contribute to pervasive unemployment, alienation, vigilantism, and instability in the entire region. A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal is appropriate not only for Bengali intellectuals and scholars but for sociologists, political scientists, cultural anthropologists, historians, and others interested in a case study of how and why a given culture becomes derailed from its path toward modernization.

Discovery of Bangladesh

Author : Akbar Ali Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Discovery of Bangladesh written by Akbar Ali Khan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical development of rural settlements, political instability, and proselytization in Bangladesh.

Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis

Author : Kunal Chakrabarti
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810880245
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis written by Kunal Chakrabarti and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bengali (Bangla) speaking people are located in the northeastern part of South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh and two states of India – West Bengal and Tripura. There are almost 246 million Bengalis at present, which makes them the fifth largest speech community in the world. Despite political and social divisions, they share a common literary and musical culture and several habits of daily existence which impart to them a distinct identity. The Bengalis are known for their political consciousness and cultural accomplishments The Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis provides an overview of the Bengalis across the world from the earliest Chalcolithic cultures to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 750 cross-referenced dictionary entries on politicians, educators and entrepreneurs, leaders of religious and secular institutions, writers, painters, actors and other cultural figures, and more generally, on the economy, education, political parties, religions, women and minorities, literature, art and architecture, music, cinema and other major sectors. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Bengalis.

Banga Sanskriti

Author : Lilack Biswas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Banga Sanskriti written by Lilack Biswas and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthology of original scholarly research articles on Bengali folk cultures. In this era of globalisation the cultural hegemony of the Occident is predominant in almost each and every corner of the world by cornering the surviving remnants of the native culture. India, being a British colony for 190 years, has suffered greatly in the fields of politics, economy, sociology and many other. It has simultaneously been greatly affected in the cultural field. India is called a miniature earth for its diversity; social, geographical, linguistic and cultural. Bengal has always been a renowned place for its cultural contributions. Under the rule of the Mughals, British, after independence, under the congress and leftists the culture of Bengal has suffered a lot and also has enriched a lot by acquiring various elements from the foreign cultures. There is no denying the fact that it has also lost a great deal of its original cultural elements. So what is its present situation? How much is washed away? How much remains? And how much is taken from other cultures? Scholars have made keen observations of the facts. The book consists of these observations as well as analyses and considerations of the facts from various points of view. Thus this book becomes an invaluable bunch of scholarly documents to be collected and kept at hand.

Critical Discourse in Bangla

Author : Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000470342
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Critical Discourse in Bangla written by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Bengali or Bangla literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions, and reinterpretations of primary concepts and categories in Bangla. It presents 32 key texts in literary and cultural studies from Bengal from the middle of the 19th to that of the 20th century, with most of them translated for the first time into English. These seminal essays are linked with socio-historical events and phenomena in the colonial and post-independence period in Bengal, including the background to the Language Movement in Bangladesh. They discuss themes such as integrative aesthetic visions, poetic and literary forms, modernism, imagination, power structures and social struggles, ideological values, cultural renovations, and humanism. Comprehensive and authoritative, this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Bangla literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Bengali/Bangla language and literature, literary criticism, literary theory, comparative literature, Indian literature, cultural studies, art and aesthetics, performance studies, history, sociology, regional studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Bengali-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Bengal and conservation of languages and culture

Bengali Language and Literature

Author : S.N. Das
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788177553987
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Bengali Language and Literature written by S.N. Das and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint ed.

Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Author : Samarpita Mitra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004427082
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century written by Samarpita Mitra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture is a study of literary periodicals and the Bengali public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century, the variety of interests and concerns that animated this domain and how literary relations were seen to constitute new social solidarities.

Bengali Cinema

Author : Sharmistha Gooptu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136912177
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Bengali Cinema written by Sharmistha Gooptu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the years spanning cinema’s emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema’s last phase of transition in the 1980s. Arguing that Bengali cinema has been a key economic and social institution, the author highlights that the Bengali filmic imaginary existed over and above the imaginary of the Indian nation. This book argues that a definitive history of Bengali cinema presents an alternative understanding to the currently influential notion of the Hindi film as the ‘Indian’ or ‘national’ cinema. It suggests that the Bengali cinema presents a history which brings to the fore the deeply contested terrain of ‘national’ cinema, and shows the creation of the ‘alternative imaginary’ of the Bengali film. The author indicates that the case of the Bengali cinema demonstrates the emergence of a public domain that set up a definitive discourse of difference with respect to the ‘all-India’ Hindi film, popularly classified as Bollywood cinema, and which pre-empted its subsumption within the more pervasive culture of the Bombay Hindi cinema. As the first comprehensive historical work on Bengali cinema, this book makes a significant contribution to both Film and Cultural Studies and South Asian Studies in general.

Kinship in Bengali culture

Author : Ronald B. Inden
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788180280184
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Kinship in Bengali culture written by Ronald B. Inden and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Analyzes The Kinship System Of A Major Human Society That Possesses An Ancient, Literate Civilization And A Tradition Of Analytical Thought.

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

Author : Vivek Bald
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674070402
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America written by Vivek Bald and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for History A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Saveur “Essential Food Books That Define New York City” Selection In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal. The American demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s beach boardwalks into the heart of the segregated South. Two decades later, hundreds of Indian Muslim seamen began jumping ship in New York and Baltimore, escaping the engine rooms of British steamers to find less brutal work onshore. As factory owners sought their labor and anti-Asian immigration laws closed in around them, these men built clandestine networks that stretched from the northeastern waterfront across the industrial Midwest. The stories of these early working-class migrants vividly contrast with our typical understanding of immigration. Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit’s Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to Harlem. Many started families with Creole, Puerto Rican, and African American women. As steel and auto workers in the Midwest, as traders in the South, and as halal hot dog vendors on 125th Street, these immigrants created lives as remarkable as they are unknown. Their stories of ingenuity and intermixture challenge assumptions about assimilation and reveal cross-racial affinities beneath the surface of early twentieth-century America.

History of Bengali Language and Literature

Author : Dineshchandra Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Bengali Language and Literature written by Dineshchandra Sen and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Roots of Bengali Culture

Author : Samaren Roy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Bengali Culture written by Samaren Roy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles.

Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870–1940

Author : Jayati Gupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000088227
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870–1940 written by Jayati Gupta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles travel writings of Bengali women in colonial India and explores the intersections of power, indigeneity, and the representations of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in these writings. It documents the transgressive histories of these women who stepped out to create emancipatory identities for themselves. The book brings together a selection of travelogues from various Bengali women and their journeys to the West, the Aryavarta, and Japan. These writings challenge stereotypes of the 'circumscribed native woman’ and explore the complex personal and socio-political histories of women in colonial India. Reading these from a feminist, postcolonial perspective, the volume highlights how these women from different castes, class and ages confront the changing realities of their lives in colonial India in the backdrop of the independence movement and the second world war. The author draws attention to the personal histories of these women, which informed their views on education, womanhood, marriage, female autonomy, family, and politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Engaging and insightful, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature and history, gender and culture studies, and for general readers interested in women and travel writing.