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JBS Vol.5 No.1 (Foreign Encounters: Bengal and Abroad) is Published

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), Literature and Movements: Bengali Crossroads (Vol.3, No.1) Kolkata (Vol.3, No.2), Bengali Music: Bengalis and Music (Vol.4, No.1), Microhistory: Bengali Perspectives (Vol.4, No.2),  Journal of Bengali Studies is happy to announce the online publication of its Summer Issue 2016 (Vol.5, No.1) on the theme of Foreign Encounters: Bengal and Abroad on the occasion of Buddhapurnima 21 May 2016.

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Cover Image: Portrait of Atisha Dipankara from Tibetan Kadamapa Monastery, eleventh century. This tangka is one of the two earliest known Tibetan portraits which have been found till date. 

ISSN: 2277-9426

Journal of Bengali Studies

Vol. 5, No. 1

21 May 2016

Buddhapurnima

7 Joishtho 1423

Summer Issue

Foreign Encounters: Bengal and Abroad

Editor: Dr Tamal Dasgupta

Contents

Editorial

Article

Trans(n/l)ation: The Nation in Translation in the Soviet Books in Bengali for Children and Adolescents

Tamal Dasgupta

Captain Suresh Biswas: Myth and Reality

María Helena Barrera-Agarwal

Atῑśa Dῑpaήkara Śrῑjῆāna – The Erudite Monk-Scholar of Bengal

Manikuntala Haldar De

Sister Nivedita in Bengal: The Irish Bengali Encounter

Mousumi Bandyopadhyay 

Bengali Identity in Seventeenth Century Arakan: Language, Identity and Emotion

Tanima Dey 

Rash Behari Bose: The Father of the Indian Independence Movement in East Asia

Tapoban Bhattacharyya

East West Dialectics, 'Indian Renaissance' and Swami Vivekananda

Partha Sarathi Nandi 

Vivekananda and the Spirit of Internationalism

Anuja Gupta Bandyopadhyay 

Othello in Nineteenth Century Bengal: A Case of Conflicted Indigenization

Abhishek Chowdhury 

Shakespeare Studies in Bengal: Bengal Renaissance and After

Arindam Mukherjee 

French Educationists in Colonial Chandernagore: A Tale of a College

Antara Mukherjee 

The Effect of Colonial Encounter on Medical Organization and Practice in Bengal

Avijit Singha 

Sir William Jones and Max Muller: The Kalpataru of Scholarship

Somnath Sarkar 

Review

Into the Exotic, around the World: Our First Globetrotters Ramnath Biswas and Bimal Mukherjee

Mousumi Biswas Dasgupta 


Interview

“West Never Liked Russia, Never in the History, Be it Tsarist Russia, or Soviet Russia.”: Arun Som in Dialogues with Tamal Dasgupta

Workshop

My Great Great Aunt Who Died: A Story

Amit Shankar Saha 

Commentary

Friday Island Othoba Noromangsho Bhokkhon O Tahar Por: A Bengali Novel in Search of Arthetypal Narratives 
Champak Dyuti Majumder 

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Notice for Delayed Publication

Greetings from the Editorial Board!

The publication of JBS Vol5 No1 on the theme of "Foreign Encounters" is getting further delayed. It will be published on the occasion of Buddhapurnima, 21 May 2016. We regret any inconvenience caused to our friends, readers and writers.

The revised deadline for sending articles and reviews will now be 10 May 2016.