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Bengal studies (Bengali:বঙ্গবিদ্যা;Bangabidya) is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of theBengali people,culture,language,literature, andhistory. The focus of this field, which qualifies asarea studies andcultural studies, is on Indic Bengalis who follow an indigenous system of faith and refer to themselves as Bengalis. It is a subset of South Asian studies orIndology.[1][2]
A study of the history and culture of the Bengali people have been undertaken by the Bengalis themselves and others likeMuhammadal-Biruni travelling to Bengal since medieval times. The work ofBankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is often considered[by whom?] to be a forerunner of Bengali studies after the Mughal period, whileIshwar Chandra Gupta pioneered the study of Bengali poets through a critically annotated collection of the diverse oral poetic traditions of Bengal. Twentieth-century Bengali historians likeRamesh Chandra Majumdar andNiharranjan Ray were among the prominent researchers of the history and culture of the Bengali people.
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