The parlour and the streets: elite and popular culture in ni neteenth century Calcutta

Banerjee, Sumanta (b.1936)

ISBN: 9788170460992, 8170460999

Profusely illustrated with examples of contemporary street songs and popular performing arts, the book traces the beginnings of tension between these urban folk cultural forms and the new culture of lthe Bengali elite which was increasingly seeking to model itself on a culture that was western in inspiration.

The play of the gods: locality, ideology, structure, and time in the festivals of a Bengali town

Ostor, Akos

ISBN: 9788180280139, 8180280136

The detailed description and interpretation of the rituals presents an inside view of society and remains, despite the current spate of books on Hindu rituals and deities, the only complete ethnographic account of a major ritual cycle in India.

Poetry and history: Bengali Magnal-kabya and social change in precolonial Bengal

Curley, David L

ISBN: 9788180280313, 8180280314

The essays in this volume represent Curley's interdisciplinary work in social history and literary criticism.

The post office, introd. by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee,

Tagore, Rabindranath

ISBN: 9789385285905, 9385285904

Tagore's Post Office represents a young boy who has received the call of the open road. He seeks freedom from the comfortable enclosure of habits sanctioned by the prudent and from walls of rigid opinion built for him by the respectable.

A day in the life of Mangal Taram

Agnihotri, Anita

ISBN: 9789385285967, 9385285963

Mangal Taram, a Gond tribal boy, is a beat forest guard in the dense and mysterious forest of Central India, spread at the foothills of the Maikal mountain range. While he observes, watches, and keeps record of the wild life, flora, and fauna of the all-encompassing forest, his mind is trapped in inexplicable fear and anxiety.

Purano katha, 3 parts in one

Dutt, Charuchandra

ISBN: 9788192369051, 8192369056

The quest, script of Goutam Ghose's film Moner Manush, based on a novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay,

ISBN: 9789381523131, 9381523134

The raj and the Bengali people

Datta, Sunil K

This book is no history nor chronological accounts of a people. It is a treatise on Bengali nationalism that has hardly any mention in any prevalent history books.

The Ramayana in Bengali folk paintings

Bose, Mandakranta

ISBN: 9789385285554, 9385285556

The vividly colourful images presented in this book occupy a special niche in the history of Indian art, remarkable because they are not only visual objects but narrative expositions of a text that has been part of the lives of vast numbers of the Indian people and often their source of moral guidance.

Ritwik Ghatak stories,

ISBN: 9789386906434, 9386906430

It reveals author's creative versatility as a writer, besides being the eminent filmmaker that he has. The book is an important addition to the Ghatak archive as a source material for any ongoing research on his films.

Samskriti O samhati

Chattopadhyay, Santi Nath

ISBN: 9788192369099, 8192369099

Sishu, an illustrated magazine for children, ed. by Barodakanta Mazumdar, intro. by Nimai Chandra Pal

ISBN: 9789384101039, 9384101036

Herbert

Nabarun Bhattacharya, Nabarun

ISBN: 9780857426499, 0857426494

Impressionistic, experimental, and earthy, the book provides a sweeping view of the richness and the turmoil of Bengali culture, literature, and politics in the twentieth century.

Gopi gawaiya bagha bajaiya; illus. by Prashant Soni

Raichowdhary, Upendrakisore

ISBN: 9789387926189, 9387926184

Children books.

Calcutta nights,

Roy, Hemendra Kumar

ISBN: 9789389136456, 9389136458

This book is the real-life story and memoir of the enigmatic `Meghnad Gupta', or Hemendra kumar Roy-one of the pioneering creators of Bengali fiction.

In search of the pitcher of nectar,

Bose, Samaresh

ISBN: 9789391125783, 9391125786

...Kanti Bhattacharjee. This travelogue narrates the author's experience of visiting the Kumbh-mela, the holy site of the confluence of three rivers, Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, at Prayag, where pilgrims bathe at a designated time of the year.

Two sisters, tr. from the Bengali original with an introd. by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee

Tagore, Rabindranath

ISBN: 9789386906663, 938690666X

The eternal conflict in the age-old `manwoman' relationship, which typically arises when any one of the two partners seeks both solace and passion in a single partner and is often unable to savour the joys of both together, is the central theme of Two Sisters (Dui Bon by Rabindranath Tagore, 1933). One of Tagore's last three novels, it was first published in 1943.

The parrot green saree,

Sen, Nabaneeta Dev

ISBN: 9789389136036, 9389136032

This book looks at political issues through a turbulent mother-daughter relationship, bringing to Indian literature a fascinating, highbrow, sexually daring, `unmotherly' mother of a grown-up daughter.

I, Anupam

Sen, Nabaneeta Dev

ISBN: 9789386906861, 9386906864

I Anupam is a sharp depiction of the turbulent times in West Bengal, when the leaders of the Naxal movement encouraged the youth to fight for the cause, but later failed to take responsibility when they were needed the most. The novel is about one such betrayal.

Thumbkin, tr. from Bengali and retold by Nonda Chatterjee

Tagore, Abanindranath

ISBN: 9789380637082, 938063708X