The (Oxford India) Anthology of Bengali Literature Volume II: 1941-1991

The [Oxford India] Anthology of Bengali Literature: Volume II (1941-1991) spans a period of half a century and includes the writings of some of the most representative figures in Bengali literature. Apart from offering a judicious selection of a vast number of writers, the anthologyencompasses various genres including poetry, short story, novel, memoir, and essay, among others. The chronological listing of works by authors enables the readers to develop a sense of evolution of various genres and sub-genres from mid to late twentieth century, while savouring this veritablefeast of material. The volume is divided into three sections. The poetry section begins with Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) and ends with Mandakranta Sen (b. 1972), and includes, among others, the works of Amiya Chakravarty, Buddhadeva Bose, Latifi Hilali, Shamsur Rahman, Sankha Ghosh, Tarapada Roy, Nabaneeta Dev Sen,and Ketaki Kushari Dyson. Satinath Bhaduri, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray, Syed Shamsul Haq, Bani Basu, and Nasreen Jahan are some of the names featuring in the short fiction section. The section on prose non-fiction-memoir, essay, etc.-features Dhurjatiprasad Mukerji, Sudhindranath Datta,Buddhadeva Bose, Samar Sen, Sibnarayan Ray, Ashok Rudra, Partha Chatterjee, Gautam Bhadra, and Taslima Nasrin, among others.

Kalpana Bardhan is Research Associate, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

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Introduction
POETRY:
Jibanananda Das, 'On the Sidewalks' 'The Cat'
Amiya Chakravarty, 'The Traveller' 'Petition to the Boss' '1604 University Drive' 'Calcutta'
Sudhindranath Datta, 'The Vagrant' 'The Fool' 'Cyclone'
Jasim Uddin, 'The Chariot of Dhamrai'
Premendra Mitra, 'The Crow Caws' 'The Soul of Birds'
Annada Sankar Ray, 'Difference' 'Remembrance'
Ajit Datta, 'The Relative' 'The Black Mountain'
Buddhadeva Bose, 'To My Unwritten Poems' 'Sonnet of 3 a.m.: 1' 'Sonnet of 3 a.m.: 2' 'Sunday Afternoon' 'The Moment of Liberation'
Bishnu Dey, 'My Dreams too are Endless' 'The Alien' 'Aspiration' 'Water My Roots' 'Of Tagorean Beauty'
Arun Mitra, 'These Few Lines' 'In the Stones of Calcutta' 'The March' 'Wayward' 'On the Breast of Nature'
Ashokbijoy Raha, 'The Magic Tree'
Dinesh Das, 'The Sickle'
Samar Sen, 'The Storm' 'Scorched Earth' 'Self-Criticism' 'The Tides'
Kamakshiprasad Chattopadhyay, 'The Price'
Subhash Mukhopadhyay, 'At Every Step' 'At Day's End' 'Let Me Never See' 'Deeper Still'
Arun Kumar Sarkar, 'Endless'
'The Horse'
Abdul Ghani Hazari, 'The Heart of the Sahib'
'21st February'
Latifi Hilali, 'On a Solitary Evening'
Nirendranath Chakrabarti, 'Taimur' 'Instead' 'You Fear When You Fear' 'It's So at Times' 'All Kinds of Loving'
Sukanta Bhattacharya, 'Passport' 'To My Dearest' 'Time to Come' 'Life Supreme'
Rajlakshmi Devi, 'Disaster' 'The House' 'Mountains'
Lokenath Bhattacharya, 'Geometry at Twilight' 'False or True' 'The Absent Hero' 'Not Until'
Shamsur Rahman, 'Death Anniversary' 'Pain' 'There was a Door Here'
Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 'The Cat Under the Stairs' 'Friends' 'Gratitude'
Sankha Ghosh, 'At the Bend of the Road' 'Storm of Desire' 'The Sleep' 'Companion' 'Fallen' 'On that Endless Midnight' 'Oarbeats in the Ribs'
Alokeranjan Das Gupta, 'The Meta-Query' 'Beside the Well'
Shakti Chattopadhyay, 'Walks behind, yet Stays Remote' 'Just Once Try' 'I Can Go, but Why Should I' 'Old Grief and New Grief' 'The Darkness of Many Centuries'
Benoy Majumdar, 'Unititled' 'Time Wins'
Sunil Gangopadhyay, 'A Case History' 'Inheritance' 'On the Stairs' 'Suddenly for Neera'
Tarapada Roy, 'Head Bent' 'That Green Passport'
Utpal Kumar Basu, 'Puri Series - 4' 'Puri Series - 8' 'Untitled'
Al Mahmud, 'In the Dark One Day' 'Poetry' 'Simple Accusation' 'Nature'
Vijaya Mukhopadhyay, 'Ancestor Worship' 'Equation' 'Monday' 'The Ferry Ghat'
Nabaneeta Dev Sen, 'Memories of a Floral Clock' 'Jungle Story' 'Sometimes, Love' 'So Many Crazy Blue Hills'
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, 'Adam's Apple' 'Caravan'
Mohammad Rafiq, 'Kirtinasha'
Asad Chowdhury, 'Lamentation'
Joy Goswami, 'In the Evening Sadness Comes ...' 'An Evening of Rain' 'Things Recalled at Night' 'Ballad of Last Rites'
Mandakranta Sen, 'Bengal in Seventeenth Century: A Piece of Family History' 'You' 'The Believer'
SHORT FICTION:
Parashurama (Rajshekhar Basu), 'An Immortal'
Banaphul (Balaichand Mukhopadhyay), 'In the Same Boat'
Premendra Mitra, 'Juthika'
Prabodh Kumar Sanyal, 'Deep'
Satinath Bhaduri, 'Patralekha's Father'
Manik Bandyopadhyay, 'Haran's Grandson-in-law'
Ashapurna Devi, 'Izzat'
Subodh Ghose, 'Fossil'
Jyotirindra Nandi, 'Game'
Advaita Mallabarman, 'The Boat'
Kamal Kumar Majumdar, 'Extinct Rituals'
Narendranath Mitra, 'Truth and Untruth'
Satyajit Ray, 'Load Shedding'
Syed Waliullah, 'Tale of a Tulsi'
Samaresh Basu, 'Adaab'
Mahasweta Devi, 'The Divorce'
Syed Mustafa Siraj, 'Horse of Death'
Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 'The Quick Run'
Hasan Hafizur Rehman, 'Two More Deaths'
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, 'Look at Me'
Syed Shamsul Haq, 'Secret Life, Public Death'
Hasan Azizul Huq, 'Homecoming'
Dibyendu Palit, 'The National Flag'
Bani Basu, 'She'
Akhtaruzzaman Ilias, 'In the Rooftop Room'
Selina Hossain, 'Izzat'
Nabarun Bhattacharya, 'The Blind Cat'
Abul Bashar, 'Rebirth'
Nasreen Jahan, 'Stranger'
PROSE NON-FICTION:
Kazi Abdul Wadud, 'Creative Bengal'
Dhurjatiprasad Mukerji, 'Words and Melody'
Nirmal Kumar Bose, 'The Structure of Hindu Society'
Sudhindranath Datta, 'Utterance and Realization: The Tradition of Writing in Bengal'
Syed Muztaba Ali, 'Chacha's Anecdote'
Abu Sayeed Ayyub, 'Ethics and Aesthetics in Literature'
Buddhadeva Bose, 'The Last Journey'
Samar Sen, 'A Babu's Tale'
Sibnarayan Ray, 'Bengalee Identity: Problem, Inner Conflict, and Tragedy'
Ashok Mitra, 'Flavours of Freedom'
Ashok Rudra, 'Friendship in Rabindranath's Love Songs'
Sankha Ghosh, 'The Poet's Intention: The Writer, the Writing, the Reader'
Partha Chatterjee, 'Our Modernity'
Gautam Bhadra, 'Bengal's Dervishes and the Clutch of Modern History'
Nrisinhaprasad Bhaduri, 'The Island-born Vyasa'
Manoranjan Byapari, 'Dalit Literature in Bangla'
Taslima Nasrin, 'Selected Columns'
Acknowledgements