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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