''Tilanjali'' is a 1944

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 m ...

novel authored by

Subodh Ghosh Subodh Ghosh (14 September 1909 – 10 March 1980) was a noted Indian author of Bengali literature and a journalist with the Kolkata-based daily newspaper ''Ananda Bazar Patrika''. Born at Hazaribagh on 14 September 1909, now in Jharkhand, he st ...

.Das, Sisir Kumar.
A History of Indian Literature. 2.
'. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1995. p. 757Sanyal, Ashis.
Contribution of Bengali Writers to National Freedom Movement
'. Calcutta: Model Publ. House, 1989. p. 161 The novel was published serially in ''Desh''. The novel is a love story set in the backdrop of the 1943 Bengal famine. In ''Tilanjali'', the author contrasts the ideological postures of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

and the

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

(criticizing the position of the communists).Ghosh, G. K.
Language, Literature and National Integration
'. New Delhi: Ashish Pub. House, 1995. p. 108

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{{reflist Bengali-language books 1944 novels Novels first published in serial form