The Era of Bengali Rennaissance – A Legacy of the Hallowed Sons of Bengal

Srija Rakshit

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i03.2826

The Era of Bengali Rennaissance – A Legacy of the Hallowed Sons of Bengal

Author(s)	Srija Rakshit
Country	India
Abstract	The Bengal Renaissance (Bengali: বাংলার নবজাগরণ — Banglar Navajagaran), also known as the Bengali Renaissance, was a cultural, social, intellectual, and artistic movement that took place in the Bengal region of the British Raj, from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.Historians have traced the beginnings of the movement to the victory of the British East India Company at the 1757 Battle of Plassey, as well as the works of reformer Raja Rammohan Roy, considered the "Father of the Bengal Renaissance," born in 1772.[2] Nitish Sengupta stated that the movement "can be said to have … ended with Rabindranath Tagore," Asia's first Nobel laureate. Print language and literature played a vital role in shaping ideas and identities in colonial Bengal from the 18th century onwards. With its adoption by the ruling class and the indigenous population, Bengali marked a site that also oversaw contests for domination across a broad social spectrum. For the latter moreover, the language also defined their cultural identity, as part of the attempt to create a new literary prose Bengali to distinguish it from earlier colloquial forms. The new Bengali became an essential tool for the urban, educated upper middle classes to establish their power over lesser privileged groups - women, the lowly classes and poor Muslims. However, commercial print cultures that emanated from numerous cheap presses in Calcutta and its suburbs disseminated wide-ranging literary preferences that afforded a space to different sections of the Bengali middle classes to voice their own distinctive concerns.
Keywords	Bengal, Rennaisance, science, literature, religeion, orientalists, socio-political awakening, Asia.
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 3, May-June 2023
Published On	2023-05-04
Cite This	The Era of Bengali Rennaissance – A Legacy of the Hallowed Sons of Bengal - Srija Rakshit - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 3, May-June 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i03.2826
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i03.2826
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gr7hdg

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