History of Bengali literature
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Ancient Age
Charyapada
- Main Article : Charyapada
Charyapada is the oldest known Bengali written form. It is actually poems. It was written on 9th century and Harprashad Sastri discovered in the Nepal Royal Court Library in 1907.Its a palm leaf manuscript. Charyapada language is referred to as Alo-Andhari (light and shadow means twilight language). The manuscript has 47 verses, written by different 23 poets, probably lived between the 9th and 11th centuries AD. And came from the various regions of Bengal,Orissa, Assam and Bihar. Some poets were Sarhapa, shabar pa, Luipa, Dombipa, Bhusukupa, kahnapa, Kukkuripa, Minapa, Aryadev, Dhendhanpa.
Middle Age
Early Vaishnab Literature
- Shreekrishna Kirtan
- Main Article : Shreekrishna Kirtana
Shreekrishna Kirtana Kabya was composed by Boru Chandidas. When Charyapada shows us the most ancient example of Bengali language, Shreekrishna Kirtana depicts a new kind of speech style very clearly. According to Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, “The Grammer of the speech of the Shreekrishna Kirtana gives a clue to many of the forms of New Bengali”
Early Translation from Sanskrit
- Sri Ram Panchali of Krittibas Ojha
- Sri Krishna Vijay of Maladhar Basu
Mangalkavya
Main article Mangalkavya
Mangalkavyas represent Bengali literature during the middle ages in Bengal.
Biography of Sri Chaitanya
- Chaitanya Bhagabat of Vrindavan Dasa
- Chaitanya Mangal of Jayananda
- Chaitanya Mangal of Lochan Dasa
- Chaitanya Charitamrita of Krishnadasa Kabiraj
- Main Article : Chaitanya Charitamrita
The Chaitanya Charitamrita is the magnum-opus of the Bengali saint/author Krishna Dasa Kaviraja (1496-? CE). The book, a hybrid Bengali and Sanskrit biography, documents the life and precepts of the Vaishnava saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486 – 1533), who is considered by his followers to be an incarnation of Radha and Krishna combined. Chaitanya is a pivotal figure of the Hindu sect Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
As a religious text, the Chaitanya Charitamrita is the main theological resource for Gaudiya Vaishnava Theology and is divided into three sections, Adi-lila, Madhya-lila and Antya-lila.
Later Vaishnab Literature
- Padavali of Balaram Dasa
- Padavali of Jnandasa
- Padavali of Govinda Dasa Kabiraj
Later Mangal Kabya
Translation of Mahabharata
- Kabindra Parameswara
- Srikar Nandi
- Kashiram Das
Muslim Poets of 17th Century
Works of Raigunakar Bharatchandra
Shakta Padavali
Baul Gaan
Early Modern Age
Essay
- Srirampur Mission
- Fort William College
- Ram Mohun Roy
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Rajnarayan Basu
- Akshay Kumar Datta
- Peary Chand Mitra
- Kaliprasanna Sinha
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Rabindranath Tagore
Poetry
- Ishwar Chandra Gupta
- Rangalal Banerjee
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Hemchandra Banerjee
- Nabin Chandra Sen
- Biharilal Chakravarti
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Satyendranath Dutta
- Mohitlal Majumdar
- Jatindranath Sengupta
Drama
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Dinabandhu Mitra
- Girish Chandra Ghosh
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Dwijendralal Roy
- Bijon Bhattacharya
Novel/ Short Story
- Peary Chand Mitra
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Saratchandra Chatterjee
- Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya
- Manik Bandopadhyay
- Kamal Kumar Majumdar
Modern Age
Essay
Poetry
- Jibananada Das
- Budhhadeb Basu
- Bishnu De
- Sudhindranath Dutta
- Sukanta Bhattacharya
- Biswadeb Mukhopadhyay
- Amiya Chakravarty
- Arun Mitra
- Premendra Mitra
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay
- Nirendranath Chakravarty
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Shankha Ghosh
- Shakti Chattopadhyay
- Utpal Kumar Basu
- Binoy Majumdar
- Debarati Mitra
- Ranajit Dash
- Krishna Basu
- Joy Goswami
- Amitabha Gupta
- Subodh Sarkar
- Sanjukta Bandopadhyay
- Mallika Sengupta
- Joydev Basu
- Bhaskar Chakraborty
Drama
Novel / Short Story
- Atin Bandopadhyay
- Sharadindu Bandopadhyay
- Abul Bashar
- Bani Basu
- Samaresh Basu
- Jagdish Chandra Bose
- Harsha Dutta
- Hemlal Dutta
- Nabarun Bhattacharya
- Sanjib Chattopadhyay
- Abdur Rouf Choudhury
- Ashapoorna Devi
- Mahasweta Devi
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen
- Bimal Kar
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Budhhadeb Guha
- Manindra Gupta
- Bhumendra Guha
- Amiya Bhushan Majumdar
- Kamal Kumar Majumdar
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Amar Mitra
- Bimal Mitra
- Premendra Mitra
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
- Satyajit Ray
- Debesh Roy
- Jagadananda Roy
- Kabita Sinha
- Shankar
- Mallika Sengupta
Periodicals
- Digdarshan
- Kabita Pratimase
- Samachar Darpan
- Kaurab
- Bangal Gegeti
- Bhashanagar
- Bhasabandhan
- Brahman Sebadhi
- Ratrir Chorus
- Sangbad Koumudi
- Parikatha
- Samachar Chandrika
- Tatvabodhini Patrika
- Bibidhartha Sangraha
- Sangbad Prabhakar
- Bangadarshan
- Masik Patrika
- Somprakash
- Bharati
- Bangabasi
- Hitbadi
- Sadhana
- Sahitya
- Sanjibani
- Shanibarer Chithi
- Prabasi
- Sabujpatra
- Desh
- Kallol
- Kabita
- Krittibas
- Kabisammelan
Modern Bangladeshi Literature
- Shamsur Rahman
- Sufia Kamal
- Hasan Azizul Huq
- Akhtaruzzaman Ilias
- Humayun Azad
- Abdur Rouf Choudhury
- Humayun Ahmed
- Imdadul Hoque Milon
- Mohammad Jafor Iqbal
Younger Generation
Poetry
- Sibasish Mukhopadhyay
- Mandakranta Sen
- Srijato
- Binayak Bandyopadhyay
- Sanjam Pal
- Rahul Purakayastha
- paramita munsi
- Masuduzzaman
- Bijoy Singha