The book is a history of the people who speak Bengali in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal and other Bengali-speaking areas of the country – from the earliest recorded times to 1947 when the Indian subcontinent was partitioned into India and Pakistan, and nearly two-thirds of undivided Bengal went out of India. The study starts with the origin of the Bengalee race and traces the growth of Bengali language, which is the one great motivating force that binds together racially different people who converse in this language. The study focuses on the political history of the Bengalees from the earliest times to the time when the two Bengals stopped sharing a common political history. It delves into the cultural, linguistic, literary and social aspects of Bengal’s development only in so far as they have a direct impact on the political developments of the time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nitish Sengupta
Academician, administrator, politician and writer, Nitish SenGupta is a gold medallist from University of Calcutta. He has a doctorate from Delhi University and Studied public administration at Manehester University. After a short spell of reaching in Presidency College, Kolkata, he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1957 and held key post in West Bengal and at the Centre. After retirement in 1992 he headed the International Management Institute, New Delhi and has been director on the boards of several private and public sector companies. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1999 and served on several committees of Parliament. He has written ten books, notably Government and Business (Vikas, 1980), my Times: A Civil Servant Remembers (Sanskriti, 2005), Unshackling of Indian Industry (Vision Books, 1992), Strategic Management (Vision Books, 2003) and Changing Patterns of Corporate Management (Vikas, 1972). His books on Bengal include History of the Bengali-Speaking People (UBS, 2001), Kshamatar Alinde (in Bengali) and a biography of Dr B.C. Roy. He is currently based in Delhi.
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