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Bengali literary magazine

Bangadarshan (Bengali: বঙ্গদর্শন) was a Bengali literary magazine founded by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in ^[1] It was revived in under the editorship of Rabindranath Tagore. The magazine played a defining role in shaping Bengali identity and fostering nationalism in Bengal.

Many of Bankim's novels were serialized in this magazine, which also featured work by writers such as the Sanskrit scholar Haraprasad Shastri, the literary critic Akshay Chandra Sarkar, and other intellectuals. The magazine included numerous articles on the Puranas, the Vedas, and the Vedanta, reflecting a reaction within Bengali intellectual community (the bhadralok culture) to "negotiate with the set of ideas coming in the name of modernity by incorporating and appropriating the masses."^[2]

Bankim articulated his objectives for creating the magazine as one of: "making it the medium of communication and sympathy between the educated and Category:Bankim Chandra Chatterjee - Wikimedia Commons TYW