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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Bengali"”.
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Un grand poète bengali : Michael Madhusudan Dutt
… commencent une ère nouvelle dans la littérature bengalie. Nous étudierons d'abord sa vie, puis son époque; nous examinerons ensuite rapidement ses sources d'inspiration, pour terminer par l'étude de ses oeuvres principales."
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Theurgy and the Snake: The Yoga Kalandar and Bengali Sufism
… in later colonial and modern forms of indigenous Bengali mystical poetry, especially the Bāul songs of Lālan Fakir that make numerous creative references to the practices outlined in the Yoga Kalandar and, in a sense, even transcend the text’s limitations. As an appendix for reference, a new …
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Prisoners of History: Bengali Cultural Nationalists and the Hindu Past
All four authors chosen for this study were prolific writers, and have exerted influence in varying degrees on literary, political and religious trends and movements in Bengal and India. This study is not in any way an attempt to encompass the significance of their careers and influences in their …
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Evangelizing Bengali Muslims, 1793-1813: William Carey, William Ward, and Islam
… what was Carey's and Ward's understanding of Bengali Islam and what was their resulting ministry to Muslims in Bengal during the first twenty years of BMS efforts in India? This dissertation argues that Carey and Ward had a deeply-held interest in Muslim evangelization and carried out that …
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Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore: Translated, and With an Introduction (Drama, Bengali, India)
… by a brief historical account of earlier Bengali drama), and the evolution of his work in the theatre, covering not only his own directorial and histrionic efforts, but also productions of his plays on the Bengali professional stage and major revivals in Bengali group theatres of the …
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Real to Reel: The "Third Gender" Narratives and Queer Identity in Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali Films
… either featured and/or directed the films. The Bengali filmmaker, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the very few filmmakers in India who consciously and vocally spoke for the sexual minorities and represented them in his films. Focusing on the films, <em>Arekti Premer Golpo</em>, <em>Memories in …
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Shifting identities of Bengali female learners in ESOL : a poststructuralist feminist exploration of classed, ‘raced’ and gender identities
… of classed, ‘raced’ and gendered identities of Bengali female learners of ESOL (English for Speakers of other languages) from a post-structuralist feminist position. My research is conducted within the post-compulsory educational context, exploring how Bengali women construct identities in …
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Revolution, military personnel and the War of Liberation in Bangladesh
… has focused on the role and motivations of the Bengali military officers in the Pakistan Army during the initial but critical phase of the Liberation War of 1971. Unlike the military in some other Third World Countries, at that point of time, the Bengali military officers made a move neither for …
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Identifying ‘Immigrants’ through Violence: Memory, Press, and Archive in the making of ‘Bangladeshi Migrants’ in Assam
… research studies the violent conflict between Bengali Muslims, who mostly migrated from the former East Bengal during colonial times, and the Bodo Tribe, who mostly follow the Bathou religion in the Bodoland region of Assam. This conflict is often seen through the preexisting lens of communal …
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Racializing white residues: seditious Anglo-Indians and others
… Anglo-Indian anti-racism activist Cedric Dover, Bengali novelist Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, diasporic English writer Aubrey Menen, Indian cartoonist Mario Miranda, Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, Anglo-Indian politician and historiographer Frank Anthony, and British-Indian writer Ruskin Bond.
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On the interaction of portmanteaux and ellipsis
… Elliptical divisibility is exemplified by the Bengali portmanteau negative perfect, which splits into a default sentential negation and a silent perfect when the complement of negation is elided. Investigations of both ellipsis sites shows evidence for complex unpronounced structure, suggesting …
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Sedition, Equality, Nature, and Love: Anti-colonialism in the Literary Corpus of Kazi Nazrul Islam, 1900-1930
… championed Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976), as the Bengali poet of Muslim nationalism to suppress growing language demands and political representation. After the liberation war of 1971, the emergence of a new nation-state, Bangladesh, garlanded Nazrul as a national poet to enhance its political …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
… Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and Bharati Mukherjee, an American of Bengali-Indian origin. I borrow from Deepika Bahri's materialist aesthetics in postcolonialism (in turn borrowed from members of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory) and include …
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From 'a room of one's own' to 'a room in the home': Discourses of negation in Indian feminist post-colonial fiction of Anita Desai, Mannu Bhandari and Ashapurna Devi
… Mannu Bhandari (Hindi) and Ashapurna Devi (Bengali), against the western feminist approaches to Third World women.
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Saute ça : the acquisition of the faire faire causative by first and second language learners of French
Do young Bengali-speaking children learning French as a second language at preschool follow the same developmental path as French first language children with respect to the acquisition of the French faire faire causative? As an initial step toward answering this question, a flexible …
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MULTILINGUAL TEXT READING IN NATURAL SCENE IMAGES
… scripts. We also propose one Chinese and one Bengali character dataset, to advance the research in multilingual scene text recognition.
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Beyond English : translating modernism in the global south
… linguistic and literary traditions (English, Bengali, Spanish, and Hindi-Urdu), I explore the dimensions and definitions of comparative Anglophone and world literature, comparative poetics, and a comparative study of novels – in the global postcolonial world. I focus on moments of …
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Perpetuation or subversion : a study on the track of imperialism and nationalism in Anglo-Indian and Indo-Anglian literature, 1857-1947
… In the three exceptions, the translations from Bengali to English either were made by the Indian author himself or were entrusted to another Indian author and could therefore be considered as having a similar lineage. The study aims to look at the two themes: Imperialism manifested in the Raj, …
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Affective Insurgencies: Circular Narratives of Conflict in Contemporary South Asian Novels
… Analyzing Mahasweta Devi’s contemporary Bengali novel Mother of 1084, I will argue in chapter two that the middle-class protagonist’s thoughts and feelings may help us contemplate how violent conflicts can cause people to suffer from depression, providing us an opportunity to propose a …
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