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Bishnu Dey, the Glossary

Bishnu Dey (July 18, 1909 – December 3, 1982) was a leading Bengali poet, writer, essayist, academician, art appreciator, and connoisseur in the era of modernism and post-modernism.^[1]

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Academician

An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, engineering, or scientific academy.

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Adda (South Asian)

An adda (আড্ডা) is a term in Bengali referring to when several individuals 'Hangout'.

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Amiya Chandra Chakravarty (1901–1986) was an Indian literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet. Bishnu Dey and Amiya Chakravarty are 20th-century Indian poets, academic staff of the University of Calcutta, Bengali male poets, Indian literary critics, poets from West Bengal and Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali.

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Bangabasi College

Bangabasi College is a Kolkata-based liberal arts, commerce and sciences college.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Bengal famine of 1943

The Bengal famine of 1943 was a man-made famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.

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Bengal Presidency

The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India.

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Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Buddhadeva Bose

Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974), also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu, was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century. Bishnu Dey and Buddhadeva Bose are 20th-century Indian poets, academic staff of the University of Calcutta, Bengali male poets, Indian literary critics, Indian male poets, poets from West Bengal, Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali and writers from Kolkata.

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Calcutta Group

The Calcutta Group was a group of modern artists in India, formed in 1943 in Kolkata.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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David McCutchion

David McCutchion (12 August 1930 – 12 January 1972) was an English-born academic, and a pioneer in a number of original strands of scholarship in Indian studies before his early death at age 41.

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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author.

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East Bengal

East Bengal (পূর্ব বাংলা/পূর্ববঙ্গ Purbô Bangla/Purbôbongo) was a non-contiguous province of the Dominion of Pakistan.

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East Pakistan

East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, covering the territory of the modern country Bangladesh.

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Hirendranath Mukherjee

Hirendranath Mukhopadhyay (23 November 1907 – 30 July 2004), also known as Hiren Mukerjee, was an Indian politician, lawyer and academic. Bishnu Dey and Hirendranath Mukherjee are academic staff of the University of Calcutta.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Indian People's Theatre Association

Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) is the oldest association of theatre-artists in India.

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Jamini Roy

Jamini Roy (11 April 1887 – 24 April 1972) was an Indian painter.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.

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Jibanananda Das

Jibanananda Das (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language. Bishnu Dey and Jibanananda Das are 20th-century Indian poets, academic staff of the University of Calcutta, Bengali male poets, Indian literary critics, Indian male poets, Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali and writers from Kolkata.

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Jnanpith Award

The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Bishnu Dey and Jnanpith Award are Recipients of the Jnanpith Award.

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Kamal Kumar Majumdar

Kamal Kumar Majumdar (কমলকুমার মজুমদার) (17 November 1914 – 9 February 1979) was a major fiction-writer of the Bengali language. Bishnu Dey and Kamal Kumar Majumdar are writers from Kolkata.

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Kamala Girls' High School

Kamala Girls' High School is a reputed girls' school situated in Southern Avenue, Vivekananda Park, South Kolkata, West Bengal, India, affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for Madhyamik Pariksha (10th Board exams), and to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for Higher Secondary Examination (12th Board exams).

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali

Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations. Bishnu Dey and List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali are Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali.

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Marxist philosophy

Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists.

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Maulana Azad College

Maulana Azad College is a public institute of liberal arts, commerce and science in India, located in central Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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Mitra Institution (Main)

Mitra Institution (Main) is a heritage educational institution of Kolkata, West Bengal, teaching grades one to twelve under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Nirode Mazumdar

Nirode Mazumdar (11 May 1916 – 26 September 1982) was an Indian painter from the first generation of modernists, and a key member of the Calcutta Group.

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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda (born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 190423 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Partition of Bengal (1947)

The Partition of Bengal in 1947, also known as the Second Partition of Bengal, part of the Partition of India, divided the British Indian Bengal Province along the Radcliffe Line between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.

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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS (29 June 1893– 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician. Bishnu Dey and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis are academic staff of the University of Calcutta.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Presidency University, Kolkata

Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly Presidency College, Kolkata) is a public state university located in College Street, Kolkata.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. Bishnu Dey and Rabindranath Tagore are 20th-century Indian poets, Bengali male poets, Indian male poets, poets from West Bengal and writers from Kolkata.

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Roger Garaudy

Roger Garaudy (17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author.

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Sahitya Akademi Award

The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language.

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Samar Sen (poet)

Samar Sen (সমর সেন; 10 October 1916 – 23 August 1987) was a prominent Indian Bengali poet and journalist in the post-Independence era. Bishnu Dey and Samar Sen (poet) are 20th-century Indian poets, Bengali male poets, poets from West Bengal and writers from Kolkata.

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Sanskrit Collegiate School

Sanskrit Collegiate School is one of the oldest schools in Kolkata, India, teaching grades from class 1 to 12 under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education.

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Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose (1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician. Bishnu Dey and Satyendra Nath Bose are academic staff of the University of Calcutta.

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St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College

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Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)

Subhash Mukhopadhyay (12 February 1919 – 8 July 2003) was one of the foremost Indian Bengali poets of the 20th century. Bishnu Dey and Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet) are 20th-century Indian poets, Bengali male poets, Indian male poets, poets from West Bengal, Recipients of the Jnanpith Award, Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali and writers from Kolkata.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishnu_Dey

Also known as Bishnu Day.

, Tebhaga movement, University of Calcutta, Verrier Elwin, West Bengal, World war, World War II.

Bishnu Dey, the Glossary

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Bangabasi College alumni

St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College alumni

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