After the proud publications of our issues on Ognijug (Vol. 1, No.1), Bengali Cinema (Vol.1, No.2), Bengali Theatre (Vol.2, No.1), Science and Technology in History: Modern Bengali Perspectives (Vol.2, No.2) Journal of Bengali Studies is happy to announce the online publication of our Summer Issue 2014 (Vol.3, No.1), on the theme of Literature and Movements: Bengali Crossroads on the occasion of Buddhapurnima, 14 May 2014. You can read the issue by clicking at this link: Literature and Movements: Bengali Crossroads (JBS Vol.3 No.1)
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ISSN: 2277-9426
Journal of Bengali Studies
Vol. 3, No. 1
14 May 2014
Buddhapurnima, 30 Boishakh 1421
Summer Issue
Literature and Movements:
Bengali Crossroads
Editor: Tamal Dasgupta
Contents
Editorial 7
Articles
The Radha Idea at the Crossroads of History, Culture and Politics:Gitagovindaand the Boishnob Movement in Bengal
Tamal Dasgupta 14
Shakto Literature and the ‘Durga-Kali’ Paradigm: Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay’s “The Goddess” as Satyajit Ray’s Devi
Kaustav Kundu 43
Bratya Basu’s Plays: Challenging Hegemony from between the Eyebrows of Time
Sourav Gupta 71
From Suffering to Revolt and Rejection: A Study of the Bengali Dalit Narratives by Jatin Bala and Utthanpada Bijali
Asit Panda 90
Nitai in Boishnob Movement and Literature
Sayantan Thakur 106
The Movement Within: A Secret Guide to Esoteric Kaayaasaadhanaa inCaryaapada
Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay 113
Partition of India and the Chronicle of the Eastern Frontier: Mapping the Short Fictions in Bengali on Migration, Displacement and Refugee Struggle
Kallol Gangopadhyay 128
Michael Madhusudan’s Collaboration and Collusion with Dominant Colonial Culture inMeghanadbadh Kavya
Deb Dulal Halder 136
Literature & Movement in the Mahishasurmardini-Selected Verses of the Devi Mahatmya/ Durga Saptashati and the Bengali Crossroads
Sanjay Kumar 148
Reviews
Liberal Individualism in the Early Career of Utpal Dutt and Nationalism in the Twilight of Amritalal Basu’s Life: A Review of Encore and Roshoraajer Roshokothon
Mousumi Biswas Dasgupta 172
Dhorai Charita Manas: A Documentation of Gandhian Myth and Indian Freedom Movement
Saptarshi Maity 177
Workshop
Seeing, Beyond Seeing: Poetry of Movement and Movement of Poetry
Debanjan Das 181
Commentaries
Boats in Chuyachandan
Swarup Bhattacharya 185
Hungry Movement after 50 Years
Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay 189
