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Academic field studying the Bengali culture
Bengal studies
(
Bengali
:
??????????
;
Bangabidya
) is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the
Bengali people
,
culture
,
language
,
literature
, and
history
. The focus of this field, which qualifies as
area studies
and
cultural studies
, is on Indic Bengalis who follow an indigenous system of faith and refer to themselves as Bengalis. It is a subset of South Asian studies or
Indology
.
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A study of the history and culture of the Bengali people have been undertaken by the Bengalis themselves and others like
Muhammadal-Biruni
travelling to Bengal since medieval times. The work of
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
is often considered
[
by whom?
]
to be a forerunner of Bengali studies after the Mughal period, while
Ishwar Chandra Gupta
pioneered the study of Bengali poets through a critically annotated collection of the diverse oral poetic traditions of Bengal. Twentieth-century Bengali historians like
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar
and
Niharranjan Ray
were among the prominent researchers of the history and culture of the Bengali people.
International Congress of Bengal Studies
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