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Bengali is an Indic language of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It has evolved from Vedic Sanskrit through the Māgadhī-Apabhraṁśa-Abahaṭṭha system of eastern Indian vernaculars. Bengali script has developed from the Proto-Bengali or Siddhamātṛikā script, an evolved form of the Siddhaṁ script. The history of Bengali literature can be traced from the eleventh century, the earliest specimen being the Charyāpada. Bengali is the national language of Bangladesh and has status of official language in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam as well as the union territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Speaker-wise, Bengali is the seventh language of the world.

History of language and literature

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Bengali
Bengali Literature (1871) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
History of Bengali Language and Literature (1911) by Dinesh Chandra Sen
History of Bengali Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1919) by Sushil Kumar De (transcription project)
The History of the Bengali Language (1920) by Bijay Chandra Majumdar
The Literature of Bengal (1895) by Romesh Chunder Dutt (transcription project)
The Origin of the Bengali Script (1919) by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay
A Hundred Years of Bengali Press (1920) by Phanindra Nath Bose and Henry William Bunn Moreno (transcription project)

Grammar and syntax

Bengali Prose Style 1800-1857 (1921) by Dinesh Chandra Sen (transcription project)
Introduction to the Bengalee Language (1861) by Shyamacharan Sarkar (transcription project)
Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language (1801) by William Carey
Grammar of the Bengali Language, literary and colloquial (1891) by John Beames (transcription project)

Poetry

Drama

Rabindranath Tagore
Princess Kalyani (1930) by Swarnakumari Ghosal (transcription project)
Nil Durpan (1861) by Dinabandhu Mitra, translated by Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Fiction

Religion

Non-fiction

Glimpses of Bengal (1921) by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Surendranath Tagore (transcription project)
Some Notes on Indian Artistic Anatomy (1914) by Abanindranath Tagore, translated by Sukumar Ray (transcription project)
A descriptive catalogue of Bengali works (1855) by James Long (transcription project)
A Supplementary Catalogue of Bengali printed books in the library of the British Museum (1910) by James Fuller Blumhardt (transcription project)

Cuisine

Indian Cookery and Confectionery (1920) by Mrs I. R. Dey, translated by P. C. Dey (transcription project)

Biographies

Ramtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer - A History of the Renaissance in Bengal (1907) tr. of Ramtanu Lahiri O Tatkalin Bangasamaj (1904) of Sivanath Sastri by Roper Lethbridge (transcription project)
Chaitanya's Life and Teachings (1922): translation of Chaitanya Charitamrita (1582) of Krishnadas Kaviraj by Jadunath Sarkar (transcription project)

Autobiographies

My Reminiscences (1917) by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Surendranath Tagore (transcription project)
The Autobiography of Maharshi Devendranath Tagore (1914) translated by Satyendranath Tagore and Indira Devi Chaudhurani (transcription project)

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