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Journal of Bengali Studies (ISSN 2277-9426), Vol. 6 No. 1
Published on the Occasion of Dolpurnima, 16 Phalgun 1424
The Theme of this issue is
The Age of Bhadralok: Bengal’s Long Twentieth Century for joining me!
Journal of Bengali Studies
ISSN: 2277- 9426, Impact Factor 4.596
The Age of Bhadralok:
Bengal’s Long Twentieth Century
Journal of Bengali Studies (ISSN 2277-9426), Vol. 6 No. 1 Published on the Occasion of Dolpurnima, 16 Phalgun 1424
The Theme of this issue is
The Age of Bhadralok: Bengal’s Long Twentieth Century
Editorial Board: Tamal Dasgupta (Editor-in-Chief)
Amit Shankar Saha (Editor)
Mousumi Biswas Dasgupta (Editor)
Sayantan Thakur (Editor)
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Journal of Bengali Studies is a double blind peer-reviewed online journal published since 2012.
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We have previously published NINE issues on the following themes, and all of them are available online:
Ognijug (Vol.1, No.1)
Bengali Cinema: Bengalis and Cinema (Vol.1, No.2)
Bengali Theatre: Bengalis and Theatre (Vol.2, No.1)
Science and Technology in History: Modern Bengali Perspectives (Vol.2, No.2)
Literature and Movements: Bengali Crossroads (Vol.3, No.1)
Kolkata (Vol.3, No.2)
Bengali Music: Bengalis and Music (Vol.4 No.1)
Microhistory: Bengali Perspectives (Vol.4, No.2)
Foreign Encounters: Bengal and Abroad (Vol. 5, No.1)
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Contents
Editorial 10
Article
Bankim and Rabindranath: Dialectics in the Dawn of the Age of Bhadralok
Tamal Dasgupta 13
The Fallen Woman Who Would Be Lost into the Long Twentieth Century: Thakomoni from ThoseDays
Mousumi Biswas Dasgupta 66
Vaishnava Theology’s Lyrical Legacy in the Twentieth Century: An Analysis of Tagore’s Gitanjali and Bhanusingha’s Padabali
Sayantan Thakur 73
Demographic Alterations in West Bengal During the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century
Anish Gupta 97
There Just Aren’t Faces Like That Anymore: Remembering Devika Rani
Anuja Bagchi 109
Oscillation as Dilemma in the Songs of Moushumi Bhowmik
Chirantan Sarkar 118
Rereading and Restructuring the Marichjhapi Massacre in Post-Partition Historiography:
Dispossession and Refugeeism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay 130
Reliving the Partition in Recent Bengali Films
Somdatta Mandal 143
Oscillating Between ‘Ae-Par-Bangla’ and ‘Ue-Par-Bangla’: A Kaleidoscopic View of Oral Traditions among the Tripura Bangals
Gitanjali Roy 153
Nation, Language and the Middle Classes: A Brief Reappraisal of the Respective Stances of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore
Pracheta Bakshi 175
Transforming the Baboo: Bankim and the Rise of Nationalist Historiography
Abhinaba Chatterjee 181
Shakespeare’s Impact on the Bengali Bhadralok
Arindam Mukherjee 201
Bilet Ferat (1921): A Milestone of Bengali Film History
Abhishek Chowdhury 215
Bengali Vaidya Caste and the Age of Bhadralok
Raibatak Sen Gupta 227
Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri: Towards a Biography of a British Bhadralok
Tamal Guha 269
Review
A Memoir with a Difference: An Introspection into Tapan Raychaudhury’s Romonthon OthobaVimrotipraptor Paracharitcharcha
Ayon Halder 286
Birlas and the Decline of the Age of Bhadralok: A Review of The Mystery of Birla House
Somashish 290
“Put a Tongue in Every Wound of Caesar”: A Review of Ranajit Roy’s Dhwongsher Pothe
Poshchimbongo
Tamal Dasgupta 298
Creative Workshop: Poem
The Pigeons
Amit Shankar Saha 302
Interview
Remembering the Sengupta Brothers and Bengal’s Twentieth Century: JBS in Conversation with
Binayak Sengupta 305
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