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Nil Darpan (Bengali: নীল দর্পণ, The Indigo Mirror) is a Bengali-language play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859. The play was essential to Nil Vidroha, better known as the Indigo Revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields to protest against exploitative working conditions during the period of Company rule.
Shakta Rash. Bengal's Shakti Festivals. Chalchitra (বাংলা- চালচিত্র) is a part of Bengal Patachitra. It referred to the Debi Chal or Durga chala, the background of the Durga Pratima or idol. Originally, these were used to give a proper proportion to the structure. This tradition is very ancient and is still maintained.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) CIE (26 or 27 June 1838 [4] – 8 April 1894 [5]) was an Indian 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 was the composer of Vande Mataram ...
ipindiaservices.gov.in. Patachitra or Pattachitra is a general term for traditional, cloth-based scroll painting, [5] based in the eastern Indian states of Odisha, [6] [7] West Bengal [8] and parts of Bangladesh. Patachitra artform is known for its intricate details as well as mythological narratives and folktales inscribed in it.
Krittivasi Ramayan. Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇ, [a]; also called Śrīrām Pãcālī, [b] composed by the fourteenth-century Bengali poet Krittibas Ojha, from whom it takes its name, is a rendition of the Rāmāyaṇa into Bengali. Written in the traditional Rāmāyaṇa Pā̃cālī form of Middle Bengali literature, the Kṛttivāsī ...
Indigo revolt (1858) in Bengali was the revolt of the indigo farmers against the indigo planters. It was one year after the Sepoy Revolt , Bengal saw one more important revolt in its history. The play was published from Dhaka and soon after its publication it ignited a major argument in the newspapers. [5]
Thakurmar Jhuli ( Bengali: ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি; Grandmother's Bag [of tales]) is a collection of Bengali folk tales and fairy tales. The author Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder collected some folktales of Bengali and published some of them under the name of " Thakurmar Jhuli " in 1907 (1314 of Bengali calendar ). The Nobel ...
Bengali literature ( Bengali: বাংলা সাহিত্য, romanized : Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time and dynastic patronization or non-patronization. [1] Bengali has developed over the ...