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.

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Label	Occurrences
Bengal Renaissance	38
Bengali Renaissance canonical	30
Bengal Renaissance intellectual circle	1
Bengal Renaissance literature	1
Bengal Renaissance thought	1
Bengali Renaissance literature	1
বঙ্গীয় নবজাগরণ	1

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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 ⓘ Calcutta ⓘ surface form: Kolkata
associatedOrganization	Brahmo Samaj ⓘ University of Calcutta ⓘ surface form: Calcutta University Hooghly Mohsin College ⓘ surface form: 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	Bengali Renaissance ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ

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