JBS Literature Issue Vol.3 No.1

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)

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: Gitagovinda and 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 in Caryaapada

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 in Meghanadbadh 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