History of the Department

The Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Sir Nilratan Sircar initiated this Department as the Department of Modern Indian Languages. Acharya Dinesh Chandra Sen is considered as the founder of the Department. The first Professor post of Bengali named after Ramtanu Lahiri was offered to Rai Bahadur Khagendranath Mitra and he headed the post for more than 12 years and on the 1st August 1932 Rabindranath Tagore was appointed to that post for 2 years. The Department has  another two chair-post in the auspicious name of Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Prof. Asutosh Bhattacharya started teaching on three special papers : Folk Literature , Mangal Kavya & Bengali Drama. This Department can claim excellence for having creative artists as faculties and for giving birth to poets, novelists, dramatists & actors.

Past Eminent Teachers

Dinesh Chandra Sen.  Ramendra Sundar Tribedi.  Charu Chandra Banerjee. Susil Kumar De. Khagendra Nath Mitra. Basanta Ranjan Roy. D.R. Bhandarkar. I.J.S. Taraporewala.  Suniti Kumar Chatterjee.  Srikumar Banerjee.  Sudhir Kumar Dasgupta. Tamonash Chandra Dasgupta.    Priya Ranjan Sen.  Janardan Chakraborty.  Biswapati Chowdhuri.  Monindra Mohan Basu.  Md. Sahidullah.  Subodh Chandra Sengupta.  Jatindra Mohan Bhattacharya.  Sashibhusan Dasgupta.  Pramatha Nath Bishi.  Haraprasad Mitra.  Bijan Behari Bhattacharya.  Sukumar Sen. Narayan Gangopadhyay.  Asutosh Bhattacharya. Dwijendranath Basu.  Asit Kumar Bandyopadhyay.

Faculty Members (as on 31.07.’08)

Name

Specialization

Telephone No.  &  E-mail ID

Professors:
Manas Majumdar	Folk Literature & Modern Poetry	2321-4893 / 9331229282 mmbeng@caluniv.ac.in
Biswanath Roy	Rabindra Sahitya & Medieval Bengali Literature	2461-1536 / 9433700841 brbeng@caluniv.ac.in
Sanat kr. Naskar	Medieval Bengali Literature & Drama	2433-0642 / 9433368509 sknbeng@caluniv.ac.in
Tarun Kr. Mukhopadhyay	Drama & Modern Poetry	2683-3370 / 9433236333 tmbeng@caluniv.ac.in
Urmi Roychoudhuri	Novel & Short Story	2443-7899 / 9830340560 urbeng@caluniv.ac.in

Readers:
Chhanda Roy	19th Century Literature & Medieval Bengali Literature	2461-0782 / 9830014080 crbeng@caluniv.ac.in
Sucharita Bandyopadhyay	Linguistics & Lexicography	2411-7002 / 9836743250 sbbeng@caluniv.ac.in

Senior Lecturers:
Prasun Ghosh	Novel & Short Story	03463-255229 / 9474020961 nbuprasun_ghosh beng@yahoo.com

Lecturer:
Sk. Rafikul Hossain	Modern Bengali Poetry & Aesthetics	9836985620 rafikul_cu@yahoo.co.in
Arup Kumar Das	Bengali Fiction & Comparative Literature	9831940040

Research Project

1. DRS Project (Phase-1) Under SAP

Thrust Area
a)  Tagore Study in New Perspective
b) Marginal Life , Literature & Culture of Sundarban

2. UPE Project under UGC

Thrust Area
Social Status of Women as Reflected in Bengali Literature (Kathasahitya : 1850 - 1950)

Lists of Endowment Lectures, Scholarships, Awards

Awards

Jagattarini Medal Sarojini Basu Medal Lila Puraskar Bhuban Mohini Dasi Medal

 

Endowment Lectures

1. Dwijendralal Roy Readership (Annual) – 4 Lectures on the  Life & Culture of Bengali.
2. Vidyasagar Lectureship (Annual) – Lecture on various aspects of the Bengali Language,Literature or Social reforms.
3. Dinesh Chandra Sen Memorial Lectureship (Annual) –  Lecture on Bengali Language & Literature.
4. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee Memorial Lectureship (Biennial) - Lecture on Bengali Language & Literature.
5. Rammohan Roy Lectureship (Annual) – Lecture on Raja Rammohan Roy.
6. Girish Chandra Ghosh Lectureship (Biennial) -Lecture on Bengali Literature.
7. Adhyapak Sudhir Kr. Dasgupta Lecture (Biennial) -  Lecture on some topic connected with Aesthetics or Literary Criticism.
8. Lila Lectureship (Biennial) - Lecture on Bengali Language & Literature.
9. Partha Bandyopadhyay Memorial Lectureship (Annual) – Lecture on Bengali Language & Literature especially   Bengali Drama.
10. Asok Bikash Bhattacharya Memorial Lectureship (Annual) –   Lecture on Bengali Language & Science fiction.

Scholarships

1. Late Rash Behari Banerjee Memorial Cash Prize
2. Patralekha Debi Scholarship
3. Anil Chandra Gupta Memorial Studentship
4. Jnanada Sundari Sarkar Memorial Scholarship
5. Paramita Basu Memorial Scholarship
6. Ruplekha Nandi Memorial Scholarship
7. Kalyani Sarkar Memorial Scholarship
8. Kamala Bala Paul Studentship
9. Amal Kr. Bandyopadhyay Memorial Scholarship.
10. Jatindranath Sengupta Memorial Scholarship