Banga Sanskriti: Introspections into Bengali Culture

This book is an anthology of original scholarly research articles on Bengali folk cultures. In this era of globalisation the cultural hegemony of the Occident is predominant in almost each and every corner of the world by cornering the surviving remnants of the native culture. India, being a British colony for 190 years, has suffered greatly in the fields of politics, economy, sociology and many other. It has simultaneously been greatly affected in the cultural field. India is called a miniature earth for its diversity; social, geographical, linguistic and cultural. Bengal has always been a renowned place for its cultural contributions. Under the rule of the Mughals, British, after independence, under the congress and leftists the culture of Bengal has suffered a lot and also has enriched a lot by acquiring various elements from the foreign cultures. There is no denying the fact that it has also lost a great deal of its original cultural elements. So what is its present situation? How much is washed away? How much remains? And how much is taken from other cultures? Scholars have made keen observations of the facts. The book consists of these observations as well as analyses and considerations of the facts from various points of view. Thus this book becomes an invaluable bunch of scholarly documents to be collected and kept at hand. Read more