Bengali-language literature

national anthem of India

Bengalis ( ), also rendered as endonym Bangalee, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia. The current population is divided between the sovereign country Bangladesh and the Indian regions of West Bengal, Tripura, Barak Valley of Assam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and parts of Meghalaya, Manipur and Jharkhand. Most speak Bengali, a classical language from the Indo-Aryan language family.

1960s literary movement in the Bengali language

literature in Bengali language

Devdas (, transliterated as Dēbôdās) is a Bengali romance novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. The story pivots a tragic triangle linking Devdas, an archetypal lover in viraha (separation); Paro, his forbidden childhood love; and Chandramukhi, a reformed courtesan (tawaif). Devdas has been adapted on screen 20 times for film and 5 times for single song.

Biography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore

Kapalkundala () is a Bengali romance novel by Indian writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Published in 1866, it is a story of a forest-dwelling girl named Kapalkundala, who fell in love with and married Nabakumar, a young gentleman from Saptagram, but eventually found that she is unable to adjust herself to city life. Following the success of Chattopadhyay's first novel Durgeshnandini, he decided to write about a girl who is brought up in a remote forest by a Kapalika (Tantrik sage) and never saw anyone but her foster-father. The story is set in Dariapur, Contai in modern-day Purba Medinipur d

1905 Bengali song by Rabindranath Tagore

Epic poem by Michael Madhusudan Dutt

collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal

Scientific article writer (1869-1933)

1914 novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore

Syed Alaol (; 1607–1680) was a Bengali poet of the 17th century. He is referred to as a "bard of Middle Bengali literature, and is regarded as one the greatest poets of medieval Bengal. His most famous work, Padmavati, recounts the story of Padmavati, a princess from Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka). Because his poetry often blended emotion with intellectualism, he earned the title Pandit Kabi (Scholar of Poets). In his honor, a major Bangladeshi literary award—the Alaol Sahitya Puroshkar is named after him.

song composed by Altaf Mahmud with lyrics by Abdul Gaffar Choudhury

thumb|Behula sails with her dead husband, scene from Manasamangal Kāvya|Manasa Mangal thumb|right|Ruins claimed to be Lakshmindara-Behula's bridal chamber, near Bogra in [[Bangladesh]] Behula ( beula, ) is a protagonist in the Manasamangal genre of Assamese, Angika and Bengali medieval epics. A number of works belonging to this genre were written between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. Though the religious purpose of these works is to eulogise the Hindu goddess Manasa, these works are more well known for depicting the love story of Behula and her husband Lakhindar (or Lakshindar or La

hagiography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Bengali writer and academic (1894–1970)

Bengali translation of Ramayana

Bengali literary genre

Bengali folk tale

The highest award given by Government of West Bengal for contribution to Bengali literature

lyrics of the national anthem of India

medieval Bengali poet

A puthi (, Perso-Arab: پوتھی) is a book or writing of poetic fairy tales and religious stories of Bengal and present-day East India, which were read by a senior "educated" person while others would listen. This was used as a medium for education and constructive entertainment.

Bengali Hindu religious text

Prabasi () was a monthly Bengali language literary magazine edited by Ramananda Chatterjee.

Bengali fairytales

Bengali poet, literary critic