These novels did not ratify the singular nationality of India rather they exuded aversion for both Hindus and Muslims. The way national movement of Bengal wanted to resolve this three-dimensional issue can be understood through the Binkam Chatterji’s novels. Socio-economic reasons yielded the renaissance movement in Europe centuries ago, and Bengal movement was also initiated for the same reasons except for the fact that two different civilization existed side by side here: Hindu and Muslims, and was also faced by foreign imperialism. Despite the distance of thousands of miles and a gap expanding over centuries, evolutionary style works the same way in two strikingly different scenarios: Bengal revolution and European renaissance.

It will be surprising for those who studied the reformation movement that more than the spatial and temporal realities, it was contingent on the intellectual human struggle to push forward the resistance. And following 1957, an active discourse was developed for social and political reforms. Western branches of knowledge and art became famous there for the first time. The first reformer of modern India, Raja Ram Mohan Rai, was born there. The cultural mold of our nationality was formed in Bengal. Emerging trends in Indian fine art and music is the reflection of this wave. Nationality transpires into a philosophy for a large group of society, and even starts affecting those areas of life which remain unaroused by the, apparently, materialistic movements.

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