Journal of Bengali Studies
Vol. 1, No. 1, 4 February 2012
Inaugural Issue
Ognijug
Editor: Tamal Dasgupta
Asst. Editors: Sourav Adhikary
Mousumi Biswas Dasgupta
Soubhagya Mukhopadhyay
Contents:
Editorial 5
Articles
Understanding Hi-story: Literariness, Historicity and How the Narratives of Revolution Changed Hands in Bengal
Tamal Dasgupta 19
Re-living the New Theatre Nostalgia: Reading the Ideation of Bengali ‘Bhadrolok’ & the Nationalist Civility Subtext with new eyes
Kaustav Kundu 52
Spiritual Currents of the Indian Revolution: Perspectives from the Early Nationalist Movement in Bengal
Anirban Ganguly 86
Bengal’s Revolutinaries and the Muslims of Bengal: What Went Wrong and How?
Dr. Saradindu Mukherjee 112
National Awakening through the Swadeshi Jatras of Mukunda Das
Kalyan Sarkar 127
Book reviews
A Life Apart: A Review of Bose of Nakamuraya, an IndianRevolutionary in Japan
Abhijit Mukherjee 140
Motherhood / Maidenhood in Revolutionary Nationalism: A Review of Sarala Debi Chowdhurani’s Jiboner Jhorapata
Mousumi Biswas Dasgupta 149
Nationalism & Universalism: Tagore’s Novels ‘Ghare Baire’& ‘Char Adhyay’
Pradip Ray 157
Re-viewing Desher Katha as Told by Deuskar
Sujoy Chatterjee 166
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The inaugural issue of our e-journal is on the theme of Ognijug (a Bengali word that means the ‘age of fire’), or the age of revolutionary nationalism in Bengal. The entire issue can be downloaded from here
