Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta is former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was Visiting Professor, University of Delhi, India, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. Her research interests and publications span the fields of cultural studies, gender perspectives, oratures, and translation. She has a book entitled Bibliography of Reception: World Literature in Bengali Periodicals (1890-1900) to her credit, and her most recent volume co-edited with K. Alfons Knauth is Figures of Transcontinental Multilingualism (2018).Subrata Sinha is Assistant Professor of Bangla at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (Raghabpur Campus), India. Earlier, he worked for the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, and the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, Gurgaon, India. His monograph Adhunikatar Kavyatattva o Sudhindranath Datta was published in 2019.

• Introduction 1. Bengal and the Bengali in Charyageeti 2. The Emergence of the Baul Sect and the Period of Composition of Baul Songs 3. The Termination of Sri Gauranga’s Leela 4. The Gaudiya Vaishnav Order: Its Treatises on Rhetoric and Rasa 5. The Early Poets 6. A Message to the New Writers of Bengal. Sakuntala, Miranda and Desdemona 7. Preface to Sabuj Patra 8. The Bengali Youth and Three Poets 9. The Sign of the Epic 10. Tragedy in Bangla Literature 11. A Consideration of Literature 12. Rasa and The Question of Taste 13. The Poetic Mind 14. Three Essays from Literature 15. The Search for World Language and World Literature in Poetry 16. Rabindranath and his Successors 17. The Liberation of Poetry 18. On Poetry 19. Progressiveness in Bangla Literature 20. Bangla Literature and Muslims 21. Why I Write 22. My Thoughts on Literature 23. I/ My Writing 24. In Search of a New Form of the Novel 25. Form in Theatre 26. Theatre Moments and the Search for Language 27. The Language of Theatre 28. The Alkap Theatre Tradition and Third Theatre 29. State Language and Language Issues in Bangladesh

Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta is former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was Visiting Professor, University of Delhi, India, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. Her research interests and publications span the fields of cultural studies, gender perspectives, oratures, and translation. She has a book entitled Bibliography of Reception: World Literature in Bengali Periodicals (1890-1900) to her credit, and her most recent volume co-edited with K. Alfons Knauth is Figures of Transcontinental Multilingualism (2018).Subrata Sinha is Assistant Professor of Bangla at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (Raghabpur Campus), India. Earlier, he worked for the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, and the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, Gurgaon, India. His monograph Adhunikatar Kavyatattva o Sudhindranath Datta was published in 2019.

• Introduction 1. Bengal and the Bengali in Charyageeti 2. The Emergence of the Baul Sect and the Period of Composition of Baul Songs 3. The Termination of Sri Gauranga’s Leela 4. The Gaudiya Vaishnav Order: Its Treatises on Rhetoric and Rasa 5. The Early Poets 6. A Message to the New Writers of Bengal. Sakuntala, Miranda and Desdemona 7. Preface to Sabuj Patra 8. The Bengali Youth and Three Poets 9. The Sign of the Epic 10. Tragedy in Bangla Literature 11. A Consideration of Literature 12. Rasa and The Question of Taste 13. The Poetic Mind 14. Three Essays from Literature 15. The Search for World Language and World Literature in Poetry 16. Rabindranath and his Successors 17. The Liberation of Poetry 18. On Poetry 19. Progressiveness in Bangla Literature 20. Bangla Literature and Muslims 21. Why I Write 22. My Thoughts on Literature 23. I/ My Writing 24. In Search of a New Form of the Novel 25. Form in Theatre 26. Theatre Moments and the Search for Language 27. The Language of Theatre 28. The Alkap Theatre Tradition and Third Theatre 29. State Language and Language Issues in Bangladesh

Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta is former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was Visiting Professor, University of Delhi, India, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. Her research interests and publications span the fields of cultural studies, gender perspectives, oratures, and translation. She has a book entitled Bibliography of Reception: World Literature in Bengali Periodicals (1890-1900) to her credit, and her most recent volume co-edited with K. Alfons Knauth is Figures of Transcontinental Multilingualism (2018).Subrata Sinha is Assistant Professor of Bangla at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (Raghabpur Campus), India. Earlier, he worked for the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, and the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, Gurgaon, India. His monograph Adhunikatar Kavyatattva o Sudhindranath Datta was published in 2019.

• Introduction 1. Bengal and the Bengali in Charyageeti 2. The Emergence of the Baul Sect and the Period of Composition of Baul Songs 3. The Termination of Sri Gauranga’s Leela 4. The Gaudiya Vaishnav Order: Its Treatises on Rhetoric and Rasa 5. The Early Poets 6. A Message to the New Writers of Bengal. Sakuntala, Miranda and Desdemona 7. Preface to Sabuj Patra 8. The Bengali Youth and Three Poets 9. The Sign of the Epic 10. Tragedy in Bangla Literature 11. A Consideration of Literature 12. Rasa and The Question of Taste 13. The Poetic Mind 14. Three Essays from Literature 15. The Search for World Language and World Literature in Poetry 16. Rabindranath and his Successors 17. The Liberation of Poetry 18. On Poetry 19. Progressiveness in Bangla Literature 20. Bangla Literature and Muslims 21. Why I Write 22. My Thoughts on Literature 23. I/ My Writing 24. In Search of a New Form of the Novel 25. Form in Theatre 26. Theatre Moments and the Search for Language 27. The Language of Theatre 28. The Alkap Theatre Tradition and Third Theatre 29. State Language and Language Issues in Bangladesh