About the Book: Bengal Reader: The Finest Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and
Plays From the Bengali
The Bengal Reader is the most expansive anthology of Bengali writing in
translation yet published in one volume. Ranging from the nineteenth century to
the present, it is edited and translated by one of the most prolific translators
of our times, Arunava Sinha. It opens up the wealth of Bengali writing to a wide
audience, both Bengali and non-Bengali. The book is arranged along the axis of
time. The first section contains the works of the 'argumentative Bengali. These
include the likes of Rammohun Roys argument against sati, Michael Madhusudan
Dutts The