The Folk literature of Bengal

This volume contain the fellowship lectures by Dineshchandra Sen as the Ramtanu Lahiri fellow in Bengali literature at the University of Calcutta. The lectures are on the traditions of flok literatures from ancient times, the transformations of languages through time, the influence of Islam, the impact of the Vedic texts in Bengali folk literatures, the position of the Bengali folk literature in the colonial period etc. Date of original material: 1920. Calendar/Era: Common Calendar/CE. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: Printed book in English; Brittle and damaged by the book-worms. The original volume with length of 21 cm. Author: Dineshchandra Sen; Publisher: Calcutta: The University of Calcutta.