History of Bengali Literature

Bengali Language likely developed as a different language around 1000 AD. The beginnings of Bengali writing are to be found in the melodies made in the eleventh-twelfth hundreds of years. The Natha literature was propelled by the rationality of the Buddhist Sahajiya faction. In the fourteenth century, Vaishnavism spread over Bengal and Chandidas represented his reverential verses which profoundly affected the writing. Adjustments of the Ramayana wound up prevalent in the fifteenth century; Kritivasa Ojha's rendering of the epic is given an indistinguishable sort of regard to the East from Tulsidas' Rantacharitmanas gets in the North. In the sixteenth century, another sort of Vaishnava writing created—true to life in nature, focused round the identity of Chaitanya. The best-known work in this style is the Chaitanya Charitamrita by Krishnadasa Kaviraja.

Mangal kavya—long narrative poems praising the struggle and triumph of a divine being or a goddess in setting up himself or herself against rivals—turned into a prevalent artistic shape after Sanskrit works came to be rendered in Bengali. Three noteworthy sorts of mangal kavya are Manasamangal, Chandimangal and Dharmamangal.

After a time of wantonness, it was in the nineteenth century that advanced Bengali writing appeared. In the advancement of Bengali composition, the part of the Christian ministers must be recognized. William Carey composed a Bengali punctuation, aggregated an English-Bengali lexicon and got the Bible converted into Bengali. The foundation of the Fort William College at Calcutta in 1800 likewise added to the advancement of Bengali. In any case, it was Raja Rammohan Roy's handouts and papers on the issues of the day that provided for Bengali composition a powerful and energetic style. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Akshay Kumar Datta demonstrated the rich capability of Bengali writing and conveyed a feeling of teaching to the utilization of the language which ended up virtuous and enthusiastic in their grasp.

Bankim Chandra is viewed as the father of the advanced novel in India. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee was another writer of legitimacy in the mid twentieth century.

Michael Madhusudan Dutt was the initiator to break out of traditionalism and effectively try different things with naturalizing European structures into Bengali verse. He is known for his epic in clear verse, Meghanabandh, a strange translation of a scene from the Ramayana, other than various works. In the twentieth century the devoted enthusiasm enlivened artists like Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Calcutta was the scene of the introduction of the advanced show in Bengali. The main unique play in Bengali was Kulin Kulasarvasva, a social parody on polygamy among the Kulin Brahmins by Pandit Ramnarayan. Madhusudan Dutt too thought of some plays. At that point came Dinabandhu Mitra's Neel Darpan and Kamale Kamini Girishchandra Ghose was another striking dramatist. Bengali shows assumed a critical part in passing on patriotism and thoughts of social change to the basic man.

Bengali writing discovered realization in progress of Rabindranath Tagore who mixed Vaishnava lyricism, the power of the people medium and Western impacts to a comfort.

After Tagore, Bengali literature has kept on offering rich admission. Bibhutibushan's Pather Panchali and Aranyak are touchy books. Tarashankar Bandopadhyay's Gana Devata and Arogyaniketan are generally perused. Another incredible novel is Padmanadir Maghi by Manik Bandopadhyay. Ashapurna Devi's Pratham Pratht Shruti got her the Jnanpith Award. Subhas Mukhopadhyay is a prominent Bengali artist whose works, for example, Padatik and Ja Re kagajeer Nauka are set apart by social duty and he too has gotten the Jnanpith Award.