Awakening: The Story of the Bengal Renaissance

Subrata Das Gupta

random house india,

391 pages, Rs 499

“…there came into being in Bengal, beginning sometime in the waning years of the eighteenth century and flowering to fullness through the nineteenth century, an awakening of the Indian mind of such a nature that we call it a revolution. The ‘Bengal Renaissance’ was the name given to this revolutionary awakening of the Indian mind.” Subrata Dasgupta’s new book tells the gripping story of the Bengal Renaissance and the extraordinary men and women who were part of it.