History of Bengali Language and Literature
Bengali literature from Buddhist caryās through Maṅgalakāvyas, Vaiṣṇava padāvalī, Caitanya biographies, translations of the epics, to the 19th century; from manuscripts.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Dinesh Chandra Sen
- Extent
- 4,349 passages, 265,126 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1911; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Dinesh Chandra Sen †1939); published before 1931:…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 25 parts
- c2 Preface — 87 parts
- c3 List of Stories — 1 part
- c4 List of Illustrations — 34 parts
- c5 Chapter I. Early Influences on the Bengali Language — 47 parts
- c6 Chapter II. Pre-Mahomedan Literature — 12 parts
- c7 Chapter III. Chandidas and Vidyapati — 9 parts
- c8 Chapter IV. — 55 parts
- c9 Chapter V. The Literature of the Vaiṣṇavas — 5 parts
- c10 Chapter VI. The Post-Chaitanya Literature — 246 parts
- c11 Chapter VII. The Modern Age — 203 parts
- c12 Index — 28 parts
- c13 Opinions — 101 parts