Present Indian language belonging to the Indo-European language family, spoken in the modern Bengal area.
Bengali, like many of India's regional languages, has a rich history as a literary language.
- Calcutta was India's most significant cultural hub in the nineteenth century, as well as a hotbed of opposition to British authority.
- Bengali was utilized as a vernacular language in revolutionary politics at that time, especially by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Aurobindo Ghose; it was also the language of religious leaders like as Ramprasad and Ramakrishna.
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