Other notable works in this regard are "Alaler Ghorer Dulal" (The Spoilt Brat) by Peary Chand Mitra, " Ramtanu Lahiri o tatkalin Banga shamaj" (Ramtanu Lahiri & contemporary Bengali society) by Shibnath Shastri and "Naba Babu Bilas" & "Naba Bibi Bilas" by Bhabanicharan Bandopadhyay.
A masterpiece in this regard was "Hutom Pechar Naksha" (The Sketch of the Owl) written by Kaliprasanna Singha, and satirically depicts "Babu" culture in 19th century Kolkata. The prose style, as well as the humour in these works, were often crass, blunt and accessible. The pre-Tagore era also saw an undercurrent of popular literature which was focused on daily life in contemporary Bengal. Rassundari Devi authored the first full-fledged autobiography in modern Bengali literature in 1876. Girish Chandra Ghosh and Dwijendralal Ray were prominent playwrights of the time, whereas Akshay Kumar Boral and Ramendra Sundar Tribedi are famous for their influential essays. Romesh Chunder Dutt and Mir Mosharraf Hossain are notable for their works of fiction. In the 1880s, Chatterjee critically analysed Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita as well as the problems of Krishnaism from a historical perspective in his Dharmatattva and Krishna Charitra. He also wrote Vande Mataram, the national song of India, which appears in his novel Anandamath (1882). Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was considered one of the leading Bengali novelists and essayists of the 19th century. Michael Madhusudan Datta's first epic Tilottama Sambhab Kabya published in 1860 was the first Bengali poem written in blank verse. The Ramayana, under the title of Sri Rama Panchali, was translated by Krittibas Ojha. Composed between 14 C.E., it is also the oldest Bengali narrative poem of the Krishna legend. Maladhar Basu's Sri Krishna Vijaya, which is chiefly a translation of the 10th and 11th cantos of the Bhagavata Purana, is the earliest Bengali narrative poem that can be assigned to a definite date. Majority of Hindu writers in this period drew inspiration from a popular Maithili language Vaishnavite poet known as Vidyapati. Ĭhandidas was the celebrated Hindu lyrical poet of this period, famed for translating Jayadeva's work from Sanskrit to Bengali and for producing thousands of poems dedicated to the love between Radha and Krishna such as the Shreekrishna Kirtana. Epic poetry included Nabibangsha by Syed Sultan, Janganama by Abdul Hakim and Rasul Bijoy by Shah Barid. The Dobhashi culture introduced Arabic and Persian vocabulary into Bengali texts to illustrate Muslim stories. The literary romantic tradition saw poems by Shah Muhammad Sagir on Yusuf and Zulaikha, as well as works of Zainuddin and Sabirid Khan. Muslim writers were exploring different themes through narratives and epics such as religion, culture, cosmology, love and history often taking inspiration from or translating Arabic and Persian literary works such as the Thousand and One Nights and the Shahnameh. The tomb of Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, under whose patronage were writers such as Shah Muhammad Sagir and Krittibas Ojha. Kazi Nazrul Islam, notable for his activism and anti-British literature, was described as the Rebel Poet and is now recognised as the National poet of Bangladesh. Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore is the best known figure of Bengali literature to the world. Novels were introduced in the mid-19th century. biographies of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu), translations of Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit texts, and secular texts by Muslim poets (e.g. works of Syed Sultan and Abdul Hakim), Vaishnava texts (e.g. Medieval Bengali literature consists of various poetic genres, including Hindu religious scriptures (e.g. The timeline of Bengali literature is divided into three periods: ancient (650-1200), medieval (1200-1800) and modern (after 1800). The earliest extant work in Bengali literature is the Charyapada, a collection of Buddhist mystic songs in Old Bengali dating back to the 10th and 11th centuries. Bengali has developed over the course of roughly 1,300 years. Bengali literature ( Bengali: বাংলা সাহিত্য, romanized: Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language.
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