The Bengalees: Glimpses of History and Culture |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Roots of Bengali Culture | 8 |
Life and Literature of Medieval Bengal | 25 |
Buddhism in Bengal | 38 |
From the Romantic to the Modern | 47 |
Roots of Tradition | 55 |
Nineteenth Century Bengal | 63 |
Religious Controversies | 71 |
Development of Ideas | 95 |
The Derozians | 109 |
The Brahmo Phenomenon | 124 |
Quest for Science | 137 |
Modernity and Tradition | 146 |
Some Builders of Modern Bengal | 153 |
Priyambada Devi 155 Raja Radhakanta Dev 162 Henry Louis Vivian Derozio 164 The Derozians 168 Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar 172 | 172 |
Kali Prasanna Singha 177 Rev Lalbehari Day | 179 |
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activities Akshaykumar Datta ancient Association Atharva Veda ballads became beef Bengali literature Bengali society Bose Brahmins Brahmo Sabha Brahmo Samaj British Buddha Buddhist Calcutta caste system century A.D. Chandi Chandra Chatterjee civilisation composite culture cult Dakshinaranjan Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee daughter Debendranath Tagore deities Derozians Derozio Dharma domination drinking Durga Dwarkanath Tagore earlier elite English education established European Ghosh goddess Hindoo College Hindu Hinduism ideas Indian influence intellectual inter-caste Islam Iswarchandra Vidyasagar Kayasthas Keshubchandra Krishna Krishnamohan Banerjee Lalbehari language large number later lived marriage married Michael Madhusudan Dutta missionaries modern Moghul Mookerjee movement Mukherjee Muslim nineteenth century Okakura original orthodoxy philosophy poet prakrit Priyambada published puja Rabindranath Radhakanta Dev Radhanath Sikdar Raja Ramakrishna Ramakrishna Paramhansa Rammohun Roy Ramtonoo Lahiri religion religious Rig Veda ritual Sahajiya Sankhya Sanskrit College Sivanath Sastri social reform taboos Tantra Tantric tradition Upanishads Vaishnava vedic Aryans Vivekananda widow remarriage worship wrote Young Bengal