Bengali Renaissance

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cultural movement historical period intellectual movement social reform movement

The Bengali Renaissance was a 19th- and early 20th-century cultural, intellectual, and social reform movement in Bengal that profoundly shaped modern Indian literature, education, nationalism, and progressive thought.

Aliases (2)

Bengal Renaissance ×13
Bengali Renaissance literature ×1

Statements (67)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement → historical period → intellectual movement → social reform movement →
aimedTo	abolish sati → challenge social orthodoxy → promote modern education → promote widow remarriage → promote women's education → reform Hindu society →
associatedCity	Calcutta → Kolkata →
associatedOrganization	Brahmo Samaj → Calcutta University → Hindu College → Young Bengal movement →
contributedTo	Indian independence movement → formation of modern Bengali identity →
country	British India →
culturalOutput	Bengali drama → Bengali essays → Bengali novels → modern Bengali poetry →
hasAlternativeName	Bengal Renaissance →
hasCoreArea	urban middle class in Bengal →
hasEndTime	early 20th century →
hasLanguage	Bengali → English →
hasStartTime	early 19th century →
historicalContext	British colonial rule in India →
influenced	Bengali literature → Indian nationalism → education reform in India → modern Indian literature → progressive thought in India → social reform in India →
inspiredBy	British liberal thought → European Enlightenment →
keyTheme	abolition of social evils → education → humanism → modernization → nationalism → rationalism → religious reform → social reform → women's rights →
mainRegion	Bengal →
notableFigure	Annie Besant → Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay → Debendranath Tagore → Dwarkanath Tagore → Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar → Jagadish Chandra Bose → Keshab Chandra Sen → Michael Madhusudan Dutt → Rabindranath Tagore → Raja Ram Mohan Roy → Sarojini Naidu → Satyendra Nath Bose → Satyendranath Tagore → Swami Vivekananda →
overlapsWith	Indian independence movement →
precededBy	late Mughal period in Bengal →
religiousContext	Christianity → Hinduism → Islam →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay ("Bengal Renaissance") → Dwijendranath Tagore ("Bengal Renaissance") → Gyanadanandini Devi ("Bengal Renaissance") → Jyotirindranath Tagore ("Bengal Renaissance") → Michael Madhusudan Dutt → Rabindranath Tagore ("Bengal Renaissance") →	movement
Jorasanko Thakur Bari ("Bengal Renaissance") → Mrinalini Devi → Rabindra Sangeet → Satyendranath Tagore ("Bengal Renaissance") → Tagore family ("Bengal Renaissance") →	associatedWith
Bengal → Tagore family →	knownFor
Anandamath → Gitanjali →	literaryMovement
Bengal ("Bengal Renaissance") →	associatedWithMovement
Gyanadanandini Devi ("Bengal Renaissance") →	culturalContext
Bengali Renaissance ("Bengal Renaissance") →	hasAlternativeName
Bengali literature ("Bengali Renaissance literature") →	hasPeriod
West Bengal ("Bengal Renaissance") →	historicalEvent
Indian nationalism ("Bengal Renaissance") →	influencedBy
Mrinalini Devi →	spouseMovement