id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-937 Bengali literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 3305 472 71 Find sources: "Bengali literature" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Medieval Bengali literature consists of various poetic genres, including Hindu religious scriptures (e.g. Mangalkavya), Islamic epics (e.g. works of Syed Sultan and Abdul Hakim), Vaishnava texts (e.g. biographies of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu), translations of Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit texts, and secular texts by Muslim poets (e.g. works of Alaol). Main article: Middle Bengali literature Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's first novel Durgeshnandini was considered a benchmark in the history of Bengali literature.[15] Bankim Chandra Chatterjee is considered the first successful novelist in Bengali-language and through Kazi Nazrul Islam's contributions, Bengali ghazals were enriched profusely Bengali language movement (Bangladesh) Bengali Language Movement in India Categories: Bengali-language literature Hidden categories: Articles with Bengali-language sources (bn) Articles containing Bengali-language text ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-937.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-937.txt