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Revision as of 16:21, 25 June 2014
Template:Infobox Area Studies = Bengali Studies Bengali studies (Bengali: বাঙালি চর্চা/বঙ্গীয় চর্চা) is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the Bengali people, Bengali culture, Bengali language and Bengali Literature, and the History of Bengal. The focus of this field (which qualifies as Area Studies) is on the Indic Bengalis who follow an indigenous system of faith and refer to themselves as Bengalis. It is a subset of South Asian studies and Indology. This field is considered to have been formally recognised within academia in recent times with the launch of the Journal of Bengali Studies in the year 2012 by Tamal Dasgupta who teaches at University of Delhi.[1]
However, a study of the history and culture of the Bengali people have been undertaken by the Bengalis themselves and others travelling to Bengal since earliest times. The work of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is often considered to be a forerunner of Bengali studies in the modern period, while Ishwar Chandra Gupta pioneered the study of Bengali poets through a critically annotated collection of the diverse oral poetic traditions of Bengal. Noted twentieth century Bengali historians like Ramesh Chandra Majumdar and Niharranjan Ray should be mentioned as champions of the study of the history and culture of the Bengali people.