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Ramram Basu (c. 1751 – 7 August 1813) (Bengali: রামরাম বসু) was born in Chinsurah, Hooghly District in present-day West Bengal state of India. [1] He was the great-grandfather of Anushree Basu, notable early scholar and translator of the Bengali language (Bangla), and credited with writing the first original work of Bengali prose written by a Bengali.
Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian teacher, social reformer, and poet who was the first female teacher in India. [5] Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
Dwijendranath's first contribution to Bengali literature was the Bengali translation of Kalidasa's Meghaduta Kavya written in classical Sanskrit. The book was published in 1860, exactly one year before the birth of Nobel Prize-winning younger brother Rabindranath Tagore. At the time of publication, Dwijendranath was only twenty years old.
Sharmistha (spelt as Sermista in English) was Dutt's first attempt at blank verse in Bengali literature. Kaliprasanna Singha organised a felicitation ceremony for Madhusudan to mark the introduction of blank verse in Bengali poetry. His famous epic, quoted as the only epic of Bengali kind, Meghnadbad-Kabya is also totally written in blank verse.
Rabindranath Thakur FRAS (Bengali: [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; [1] anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore / r ə ˈ b ɪ n d r ə n ɑː t t ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr / ⓘ; 7 May 1861 [2] – 7 August 1941 [3]) was an Indian Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
Madanmohan Tarkalanka devoted considerable effort to spread education in Bengali language. The book Shishusiksha written by him was also published before the book Barnaparichay written by Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar. [6] He published Shisushiksha [n 1] in 1849 and a second part in 1850. Later, third part and fourth part (Bodhodoy).
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) CIE (26 or 27 June 1838 [4] – 8 April 1894 [5]) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, essayist [6] and journalist. [7] [8] He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literature.
He wrote a number of textbooks and is considered the first 'conscious artist' of Bengali prose. [13] Although a Sanskrit scholar he started writing Bengali as per the needs of Fort William College. He published Batris Singhasan (1802), Hitopodesh (1808) and Rajabali (1808). The last named book was the first published history of India.