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Bengali Writers
This article provides an alphabetical list of Bengali language authors. For a chronological list, see List of Bengali language authors. Pre-partition Bengal A * Abdul Hakim (1620–1690) * Afzal Ali (16th-century) *Alaol (1606–1680) * Akkhoykumar Boral (1860–1919) B *Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94) *Bharatchandra Ray (1712–60) * Begum Rokeya (1880–1932) D *Daulat Qazi (1600–1638) *Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan (16th-century) *Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866–1939) *Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913) E *Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940) * Eyakub Ali Chowdhury (1888–1940) G *Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844–1912) *Girish Chandra Sen (1835/36-1910) *Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918) H * Heyat Mahmud (1693–1760) I *Ismail Hossain Siraji (1880–1931) *Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–59) *Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–91) K *Krittibas Ojha (1443-15??) M *Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–73) *Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936) *Muhammad Muqim (18th-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Language
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the List of languages by number of native speakers, fifth most-spoken native language and the List of languages by total number of speakers, seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language. Bengali is the official language, official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also a second official lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gobindachandra Das
Gobindachandra Das ( bn, গোবিন্দচন্দ্র দাস) (1855–1918), was a Bengali poet and writer. Life Das was born in Gazipur of Bengal province. He was a very poor man and could not continue study. He was an employee of the Bhawal Estate. He had two daughters and a son. The younger one was named Bhaktimoyi who later was married to Haripada Bhowmik and was the mother of three children. Her son was Dilip Bhowmik(1948-1998). In the last part of his life, Das was in very poor health. Works Gobindachandra Das was a ‘Swavabkobi’, ‘A poet by nature’. His literary works were included in the curriculum of school level, secondary and higher secondary Bengali literature in Bangladesh. Some works * Kunkum * Kastury * Prem O Ful * Boijointi * Moger Muluk References * ''Bangla Sahitya'' (Bengali Literature), the national textbook of intermediate (college) level of Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Banglad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of ''Gitanjali'', he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi. A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district* * * and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (3 February 1873–5 April 1932) was a well known Bengali author. He was born at Dhatrigram in present-day Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal at his maternal uncle's house. His native place was Gurap in Hooghly district, West Bengal''Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary)'', Sengupta, Subodh and Bose, Anjali, 1976, Sahitya Samsad, Calcutta, p 299 Personal life In 1888, he passed the entrance exam at the Jamalpur High School. In 1891, he received a Fine Arts degree from Patna College. In 1895, he received his bachelor's degree and he then went to study abroad in London. From 1901 to 1903, he studied law in London. In 1903, after becoming a barrister, he returned to Bengal to practice law in Darjeeling, Rangpur, and Gaya. He practiced law in these regions until 1916 when he became a professor at the University of Calcutta. He was a professor here until his death in 1932. Works Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay is known to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pramatha Chowdhury
Pramathanath Chaudhuri ( bn, প্রমথনাথ চৌধুরী; 7 August 1868 – 2 September 1946), known as Pramatha Chaudhuri, ''alias'' Birbal, was a Bengali writer and an influential figure in Bengali literature. He was the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore as his mother was Sukumari Debi, the second sister of Tagore. He married musician and writer Indira Devi Chaudhurani, daughter of Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to have joined the Indian Civil Services and a noted author, composer and feminist of his time, who was also the second eldest brother of Rabindranath Tagore. Biography Life at Krishnanagar He studied in Krishnanagar Debnath High School in Krishnanagar. From his 5th to 13th year, Chaudhuri lived at Krishnanagar, renowned for its own sophisticated speech and wit and craftsmanship of Bharatchardra that made a noteworthy contribution to the growth of literature in Chaudhuri. According to him, 'It (Krishnanagar) gave me speech and shaped my mind' (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nur Qutb Alam
Nūr Quṭb ʿĀlam ( ar, , bn, নূর কুতুব আলম) was a 14th-century Bengali Islamic scholar, author and poet. Based in the erstwhile Bengali capital Hazrat Pandua, he was the son and successor of Alaul Haq, a senior scholar of the Bengal Sultanate. He is noted for his efforts in preserving the Muslim rule of Bengal against Raja Ganesha and pioneering the Dobhashi tradition of Bengali literature. Early life and family Nur Qutb Alam was born in the city of Hazrat Pandua to a Bengali Muslim family descended from Khalid ibn al-Walid, an Arab commander and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who belonged to the Banu Makhzum clan of Quraysh. Alam's cousins, uncles and grandfathers were all employed by the Sultanate of Bengal, with his brother, Azam Khan, serving as the Wazir (Prime Minister). His father, Alaul Haq, was the court scholar of Bengal and entrusted with its treasury during the reign of Sikandar Shah. His grandfather, Shaykh Asʿad Khāl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabinchandra Sen
Nabinchandra Sen ( bn, নবীনচন্দ্র সেন; 10 February 1847 – 23 January 1909) was a Bengali poet and writer, often considered one of the greatest poets prior to the arrival of Rabindranath Tagore. He commented on the battle of Plassey and the arrival of British Rule in India as "A night of Eternal Gloom". Life Nabinchandra was born in Noapara, Raozan Upazila in Chittagong on 10 February 1847 in a Baidya family. He studied at the Chittagong Collegiate School, clearing the school leaving Entrance examination in 1863, In 1865, he passed the FA exam from Presidency College, Calcutta. In 1868, he earned his BA from General Assembly's Institution (now Scottish Church College), and after teaching for a brief period at Hare School, he joined the colonial administrative services as a Deputy Magistrate. Sen retired in 1904, and died on 23 January 1909. He has been considered one of Bengal's greatest writers and poets. Works Sen's earliest poems were published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Muqim
Syed Muhammad Muqim ( bn, ছৈদ মোহাম্মদ মুকিম) was an 18th-century Bengali poet, author and philosopher who was active during the advent of company rule in Bengal. His puthis are notable as they are interspersed with his own philosophical thoughts on prosody, music, astrology and religions. Background Muqim was born in the 18th century, to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds in the neighbourhood of Noapara in Chittagong. His father, Syed Muhammad Daulat, had origins in Feni. Muqim later became a disciple of Sufi poet Ali Raza, and he was also inspired by the poetry of Muhammad Danesh. After losing his father at an early age, Muqim started his career at the record office of Ali Akbar Chowdhury, a prominent zamindar of Chittagong. Bichitra Sen of ''The Azadi ''Daily Azadi'' ( bn, ডেইলি আজাদী) is a Bangladeshi newspaper published in Bangladesh. History ''The Azadi'' was first published on 5 September 1960. The paper was pro-democra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Lutfur Rahman
Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889-1936), a Bengali author, was born in Magura District. Life Mohammad Lutfur Rahman, was a teacher and afterwards went to Kolkata and established a helping house for women named, ‘Naritirtha’. He published a magazine named ''Narishakti''. Later, Mohammad Lutfur Rahman became a homeopathic doctor. Writing career His literary works were included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, higher secondary and graduation level Bengali Literature in Bangladesh. Self-development books *Unnoto Jibon *Manob Jibon *Mohot Jibon *Shotto Jibon *Uccho Jibon *Jubak Jibon *Dharmo Jibon *Cheleder Mohottokotha *Musolman *Mangal Vabishat *Priti Upohar *Bashor Upohar *Raihan *Pothohara *Uddom o Porishrrom Poetry *Prokash Translations *Chotoder Karbala *Don Quixote References *Golpo Songroho (Collected Stories), the national textbook of B.A. (pass and subsidiary) course of Bangladesh, published by University of Dhaka in 1979 (reprint in 1986). *Bangla Sah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt ((Bengali: মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত); (25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright. He is considered one of the pioneers of Bengali literature. Early life Dutt was born in Sagardari Union, Sagardari, a village in Keshabpur Upazila, Jessore District of Bengal Presidency, Bengal, to a Hinduism in India, Hindu family. His family being reasonably well-off, Dutt received an education in the English language and additional tutorship in English at home. Rajnarayan had intended for this Western education to open the doors for a government position for his son. College and religious conversion After he finished his education in Sagordari at roughly the age of fifteen, Rajnarayan sent Madhusudhan to Kolkata, Calcutta to attend Presidency University, Kolkata, Hindu College with the eventual aim of becoming a barrister. At Hindu College, Michael studied under a Westernization, westernized curriculum in a uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krittibas Ojha
Mahakavi Krittibas Ojha (; 1381–1461) was a medieval Bengali poet. His major contribution to Bengali literature and culture was Indian epic ''Rāmāyaṇa'' in Bengali. His work, the ''Śrīrām Pā̃cālī'', is popularly known as the '' Krittivasi Ramayan''. His work, edited by Jaygopal Tarkalankar, was published by the Serampore Mission Press. Life Krittibas Ojha was born in a Brahmin family at Phulia village of modern-day Nadia district in the Indian state of ''Paschimbanga'' (West Bengal). He was the eldest among his father Banamali Ojha's six sons and one daughter. The word "Krittibas" is an epithet of Hindu god Shiva. It is known that when Krittibas was born, his grandfather Murari Ojha was preparing for a pilgrimage to Chandaneswar in Odisha, hence the child was named after Shiva, the predominant deity of the nearest Odisha pilgrimage to Bengal. At the age of 11, Krittibas was sent to North Bengal (in other opinion, to Nabadwip) for higher studies. After finishing stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE ( bn, ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century. His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780. He was the most prominent campaigner for Hindu widow remarriage, petitioning the Legislative Council despite severe opposition, including a counter petition (by Radhakanta Deb and the Dharma Sabha) which had nearly four times as many signatures. Even though widow remarriage was considered a flagrant breach of Hindu customs and was staunchly opposed, Lord Dalhousie personally finalised the bill and the ''Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act'', ''1856'' was passed . Against child marriage,e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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