Bengali novels occupy a major part of Bengali literature. The first official Bengali novel is Durgeshnondini written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1865. Some great novelists of West Bengal like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, Manik Bandopadhyay, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay developed the newly introduced genre in such a way that ‘new’ changed into ‘matured’ through their works. Almost all these literary activities went on in full swing in Kolkata.
Picture: Durgeshnondini, Shesher Kobita, Shatkahon, Pother Dabi, Devdas, Pother Panchali, Aranyak, Ghare Baire, Chokher Bali