THE impact of British rule, bourgeois economy and modern Western culture was felt first in SANCE NATURE OF THE Bengal and produced an awakening BENGAL RENAIS-known usually as the Bengal Renaissance. For about a century, Bengal’s conscious awareness of the changing modern world was more developed than and ahead of that of the rest of India. The role played by Bengal in the modern awakening of India is thus comparable to the position occupied by Italy in the story of the European Renaissance.
In the broad family of peoples which constitute India, the recognition of the distinctiveness of the Bengalis has been in modern times largely bound up with the appreciation of this flowering of social, religious, literary and political activities in Bengal. And today when disintegration threatens every aspect of our life, it is more necessary than ever to recall our past heritage, to go over again the struggles and achievements which had built up a proud. tradition, now in danger of being forgotten.
NOTES ON THE BENGAL RENAISSANCE
BY AMIT SEN
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Second Edition MARCH 1957
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