Reflections on the Bengal renaissance

Prefatory Note S A Akanda                                                                    vii

PART I Introduction            (a) David Kopf                                             3

(b) Safiuddin Joarder                                18

PART II Belief System and the Bengal Renaissance

The Bengal Renaissance and the Muslim Community A F Salahuddin Ahmed    33

The Bengal Renaissance and the Bengali Muslims Safiuddin Joarder                  42

The Birth Pang of the Muslim Modernism in Bengal A Probing into the Educational and Literary Modernism

Muin ud Din Ahmad Khan                         72

Seizure of Consciousness and Position Role of the Muslims in the Bengal Renaissance

M S Qureshi                     90

The Brahmo Awakening in East Bengal and the Orthodox Hindu Reaction 1866 1872 David Kopf              103

The Christ of the Bengal Renaissance The Beginnings of an Indian Christology

John Parry                  115

PART III Bengal Renaissance The Secular Humanist Tradition

Social Context of Bengal Renaissance Sanat Kumar Saha           129

Renaissance in Bengal The Question of Indentity and Certain Conceptual Reconsiderations

Ali Anwar     152

Relevance of the Bengal Renaissance Today in Bangladesh Priti Kumar Mitra                  170

The Secularist Heritage of the Renaissance Movement in Bengal

Ramendra Nath Ghose                 180