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Bengali
Bengali-language literature across Bangladesh, West Bengal, adjoining regions, and diaspora—opened with Tagore's historical English Gitanjali without reducing the field to one poet.
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Texts
GlossaryTerms for reading Bengali literary history, genres, language politics, Tagore's self-translation, partition, Bangladesh, West Bengal, and the current shelf.Introduction to Bengali-Language LiteratureA source-critical introduction to Bengali literature across ancient song, medieval Hindu and Muslim traditions, colonial print, Tagore, partition, Bangladesh, West Bengal, and diaspora.Reader's Guide to Bengali-Language LiteratureReading paths through Tagore's historical English Gitanjali and a candid map of the Bengali originals, genres, regions, religions, and modern histories still absent.