Bengal Renaissance and Cultural Awakening in North Bengal
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- ISBN 9789360805289
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
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The impact of the renaissance in Calcutta and its adjacent areas has received considerable historical attention from professional historians. However, there is little discussion about the influence of the renaissance in North Bengal. How this cultural awakening spilled over almost simultaneously in North Bengal remains an untold theme in modern Indian history. North Bengal experienced similar renaissance though much later – only in the late nineteenth century. The Debating Club of Jalpaiguri, the Rangpur Sahitya Parishad, Uttarbanga Sahitya Sammilani, Rajshahi Association, Varendra Research Institute, Victoria College, and others largely contributed to this cultural movement.
The proliferation of newspapers, periodicals, and several associations served as crucial forums for disseminating new ideas. Aitihasik Chitra, published by Akshay Kumar Maitra from Rajshahi, was India’s first historical account written in any native language. Even Kolkata – the seat of renaissance – could not have conceived of such an undertaking. Yet the intelligentsia of North Bengal not only conceived it but also implemented it.
The Brahmo Samaj, which promoted social reform and rational free-thinking, gradually permeated in different districts of North Bengal, leading to a gradual modernization of its social and cultural fabric. The impact of the Renaissance in North Bengal is the most distinctive feature of the present work.
The proliferation of newspapers, periodicals, and several associations served as crucial forums for disseminating new ideas. Aitihasik Chitra, published by Akshay Kumar Maitra from Rajshahi, was India’s first historical account written in any native language. Even Kolkata – the seat of renaissance – could not have conceived of such an undertaking. Yet the intelligentsia of North Bengal not only conceived it but also implemented it.
The Brahmo Samaj, which promoted social reform and rational free-thinking, gradually permeated in different districts of North Bengal, leading to a gradual modernization of its social and cultural fabric. The impact of the Renaissance in North Bengal is the most distinctive feature of the present work.
Supam Biswas is currently the Head of the Department of History, Baneswar Sarathibala Mahavidyalaya, Coochbehar. He is the author of Tea World of North Bengal (2016), Partition Trauma, Migration and Divided Ethnicities in North Bengal (2022), The Empire Wrote Future: The British in North Bengal (2024), and Social Changes and Transformation: A Study on the Tea Industry of North Bengal (2025). He is also the co-author of History of North Bengal: Colonial Ideology, Entrepreneurship, Society and Culture (2020) and Transformation of North Bengal since 1947: Dimensions and Perspectives (2022). His main area of research interest is History of Bengal with special emphasis on North Bengal.
