Edited by Mursed Alam, Swati Guha and Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
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Published in 1920 The Folk Literature of Bengal is the first systematic attempt to study the rich and variegated tradition of vernacular people's literature from Bengal. Divided In five chapters, the book is the outcome of the Ramtanu Lahiri fellowship lectures delivered by Dineshchandra Sen. Sen's search for the non- canonical, marginal-at times divergent-literary and cultural practices of the people of Bengal, unearths the composite cultural mosaic of Bengal while at the same time points out Identical genealogies of mythic and folk narrative structures from Bengal and Europe. The book is an essential reading for the scholars of Bengall literature and culture- especially for those interested in the people's literature of pre-colonial Bengal and South Asian intellectual traditions.
 
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