Question

Who is the writer of "Notes on Bengal Renaissance"?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Bengal Renaissance refers largely to the social, cultural, psychological, and intellectual changes in Bengal during the nineteenth century, as a result of contact between certain sympathetic British officials and missionaries on the one hand, and the Hindu intelligentsia on the other.

Answer 2

INTRODUCTION

This short pamphlet gives no more than the broad

tramc-work for a study of the Bengal Renaissance from

Rammohan Roy to Rabmdranath Tagore.

The author himself an eminent Marxist intellectual-

did not desire its publication at this stage as it is in no

sense a detailed study nor is the frame-work indicated here

necessarily final or complete.

He has agreed to its publication for discussion because

at the present crisis in Indian life and thought, it is urgently

necessary to uncover the roots of the Bengal Renaissance

which moulded the modern Indian mind Much of that

heritage has been lost and forgotten. Much of it has been

repudiated and distorted. But it still remains the most

powerful influence in moulding current ideas of all schools

of social and political thought.

We are therefore publishing this pamphlet as a con-

tribution towards the efforts to bring about a correct and

common understanding of the ideas of our own past ideo-

logical heritage so that we may successfully struggle

towards new ideas that will help to liberate our land and

build a new life for our people.

Bengal was the birth-place of the modern Indian

Renaissance We look to all Bengali intellectuals irres-

pective of ideological or political differences to contribute

to the discussion.

Comments and criticism of this draft will be very

welcome and should be addressed to Amit Sen c|o the Com-

munist Party Headquarters, Raj Bhuvan, Sandhurst Road,

Bombay 4. All contributions, together with the author's

reply, will be printed in the Marxist Miscellany which is

brought out by the People's Publishing House.

P. C. JOSHI.