01615nam a22001815a 4500020001500000040000800015082001800023100001700041245008000058260004100138300002100179500003200200504006600232505104200298650004701340650002401387700002201411  a8172011075  cCUS  a891.44bSEN/H1 aSen, Sukumar10aHistory of Bengali literature/cSukumar Sen ; foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru.  aNew Delhi :bSahitya Akademi,c1992.  a400 p. ;c22 cm.  aOriginally published: 1979.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [387]-391) and index.  a1. Evolution of the Language and Script -- 2. The Pre-vernacular Background -- 3. Forms of Early Poetry -- 4. Old Bengali Poetry and Mysticism -- 5. The Dark Centuries and the Emergence of the Cult Themes -- 6. From the Fifteenth to the Early Sixteenth Century -- 7. Chaitanya and His Movement -- 8. The New Urge in Literature -- 9. Vaishnava Lyric Songs and Narrative Verse -- 10. The Tradition op Court Patronage -- 11. Narrative Poetry on Candi and Manasa -- 12. The Seventeenth Century -- 13. The Arpakan Poets and the Later Muslim  Writers -- 14. The Eighteenth Century : Its Tendencies and Effects -- 15. Development of Literary Prose -- 16. The Western Stage and the Early Days of the Bengali Drama -- 17. Forerunners of the New Poetry -- 18. Michael Madhusudan Dutt and his Followers -- 19. Prose Fiction and Bankim Candra Chatterji -- 20. The Theatre -- 21. The Romantics -- 22 Rabindranath Tagore -- 23. Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 24. World War to Non-Co-Operation -- 25. Independence movement to another world war 
 0aBengali literaturexHistory and criticism. 0aLanguage and Script  aNehru, Jawaharlal