Mitra, Priti Kumar,  1942-2007. <br/><br/>
The dissent of Nazrul Islam :  poetry and history / 
Priti Kumar Mitra. 
 - New Delhi ;  Oxford University Press,  2007. 
 - xxiii, 330 p. :  ill., maps ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-330). 
<br/><br/>CONTENTS: List of plates -- Acknowledgements --  Preface  - - Transliteration scheme --Dialectics of dissent  Reconstructing the 'rebel poet'  -- Against muslim and  hindu orthodoxies: dissent of the rebel poet -- Against the  hegemony of Rabindranath Tagore: dissent of the rebel poet  -- The true premise of the rebel poet -- Appendix --  Glossary Bibliography.       
<br/><br/> A pioneering work on the life and times of Nazrul Islam  with translation of many of his verses, the book focuses on  the poet's dissent against the British colonial government  in India, the Gandhian non-violent nationalist struggle,  Islamic fundamentalism, and Hindu cultural chauvinism, as  also the hegemony of Rabindranath Tagore in the world of  Bengali literature. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198063247. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007388207 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Nazrul Islam, Kazi,  1899-1976 --Criticism and interpretation.