JBS Vol.6 No.1 (Age of Bhadralok)

JBS Volume 6 Number 1 (Age of Bhadralok: Bengal's Long Twentieth Century) is currently online.

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

 

 

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