Department of Bengali Language & Literature

 

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Contact

87/1, College Street. Kolkata - 700 073.
Telephone No. : 2241-0071 - 76 / 2241-4984 - 90.





Year of Establishment

1st June, 1919



Courses Offered

 Cut-off Mark at entry

M.A in Bengali
Language & Literature

 P.G.

 B.A. Hons. In order of merit

363

 M.A. in Comparative Indian Language & Literature  (Self - financing)

 P.G.

B.A. Hons. in any Indian Language  In order of merit

 30

 M.Phil.

 P.G.

 55% in M.A. in Bengali

 20

Ph.D.

Research 

M.A. Degree

 

 

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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)

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

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