Volume-VI, Issue-I, July 2019 |
The role of Bengali Literature and Song in the Freedom Movement of India: A brief study Dr. Supendra Nath Roy, Assistant Professor , Rabindrasadan Girls’ College , Karimganj, Assam , India Kanika Roy, Research Scholar, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal, India |
Received: 02.07.2020 | Accepted: 18.07.2020 | Published Online: 31.07.2020 | Page No: 106-110 | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.6.issue.05W.075 | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
History shows that literature, art and song have always played an important role in any
kind of movement in the society. The same is true of Indians’ independence movement. The
British have ruled our country for almost 200 years. Disgusted by the exploitation,
oppression and tyranny of the British, the Indians also carried out innumerable movement.
Bengali literature and song have made important contributions behind these movement. In
other words, it can be said that Bengali literature and song have given a great impetus to
the independence movement of India. Bengali literature and song have sown the seeds of
patriotism in the minds and hearts of every Indian. Rangalal Bandyopadhyay, Madhusudan
Dutta, Dinabandhu Mitra, Girish Chandra Ghosh, Dwijendralal Roy, Bankimchandra
Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Kazi Nazrul Islam –
each of their poems, novels, plays and songs have greatly influence the Indian
Independence movement. The influence of some novels and plays was so serve that the
British government was forced to ban these. We will try to discuss here how Bengali
literature and song accelerated the Indian independence movement. Keywords: British Rule, Freedom Movement, Bengali Poetry, Novel, Play, Song. |