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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Poetry and Song — Bengali poetry and song in original-language and historical translation witnesses, beginning with Tagore's distinct 103-poem English Gitanjali collection. (1)
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Glossary — Terms for reading Bengali literary history, genres, language politics, Tagore's self-translation, partition, Bangladesh, West Bengal, and the current shelf.
Introduction to Bengali-Language Literature — A 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 Literature — A one-work doorway through Tagore's author-made English Gitanjali, teaching language, region, genre, partition, religious plurality, oral and print life, and translation without mistaking one book for Bengali literature.