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In this time, for the first time the life of the Bengali farmers took an artistic delineation through Kazi Abdul Wadud's Nodibakshe (1919). Examples of novels incorporating these themes are Najibar Rahman's Premer Somadhi (published in 1919) and Goriber Meye (1923), Sheikh Idris Ali's Premer Pothe (1926). The main themes of most of the novels in this era were Muslim society, beliefs, and orthodoxy. According to Rafiqullah Khan, 'The novel could not create any novelty from artistic point of view, but it carried great importance for its picturization of socio-economic and political culture and ideals of the uprising populace' (p.Р’В 25, Translation). Mohammad Najibar Rahman's Anowara was the first notable novel and it moved the whole Bengali Muslim community after publication. were among the novelists who tried to enrich the novels of the then East Pakistan, present Bangladesh. Mohammad Najibar Rahman, Kazi Imdadul Huq, Kazi Abdul Wadud, Sheikh Idrish Ali, Akbaruddin, Abul Fazal, Humayun Kabir, etc. The history of Bangladeshi novels can be categorized in 3 major parts.Р”В«efore 1947, events like Partition of Bengal in 1905, Foundation of Muslim League in 1906 and Unification of Bengali in 1911 inspired the Muslim community of Dhaka to establish a new identity in the horizon of literature. But the milestone in the modern novels of Bangladesh is Syed Waliullah's Lalsalu (published in 1948). This novel was written by Mohammad Najibar Rahman in 1914. To many, Anowara was the most significant one among the earlier novels written in Bangladesh. Starting from ordinary narration, now it has reached to magic realistic presentation through stream of consciousness, realism, surrealism etc. The content and form of the novels saw various changes in the last fifty years. Even till now it has not ceased to be an interesting topic. Novels about the Liberation War of Bangladesh began to come forth.

A great change of the theme came after 1971. By the end of the fifties, the novelists gradually turned to human mind and its analysis. Later on, picturization of real Bengali life became a common topic. In the early stage, glorification of the religious beliefs and lives was the theme of most of the novels.

(First Bengali novel Alaler Ghore Dulal was published in 1858 and Anowara was published in 1914.) In its history of about one hundred years, novels of Bangladesh got a good number of novels where creative emancipation of the writers has been established. Novels of Bangladesh fall almost fifty years behind the Bengali novels. Dhaka, on the other hand, could not participate in the early stage, but literature created by and of the people of Bangladesh area later on flourished with notable success.

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Almost all these literary activities went on in full swing in Kolkata. But some great novelists like Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Manik Bandopadhyay, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay developed the newly introduced genre in such a way that 'new' changed into 'matured' through their works. According to Ananda Sanker and Lila Ray, 'when the novel was introduced in Bengali in the middle of the 19th century, the form itself was new, the prose in which it was written was new, the secular tone was new in a country hitherto wholly dominated by religion, and the society in which and for which it was written was new' (p.Р’В 168). Though the first Bengali novel was Karuna O Phulmonir Bibaran (1852), the Bengali novel actually started its journey with Durgeshnandini written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1865. Bengali novels occupy a major part of Bengali literature.