Volume-II, Issue-III, January 2026
Volume-II, Issue-III, January, 2026 |
Received: 24.12.2025 | Accepted: 03.01.2026 | ||
Published Online: 31.01.2026 | Page No: 533-540 | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.03W.241 | |||
স্বদেশিকতার আলোয় অমৃতলাল বসুর ‘সাবাস বাঙালী’ নগেন মুর্মু , সহকারী অধ্যাপক, বাংলা বিভাগ, বিধান চন্দ্র কলেজ, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Amritlal Basu’s Sabash Bangali in the Light of Swadeshi Consciousness Nagen Murmu, Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Bidhan Chandra College, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
In the context of the anti–Partition of Bengal movement of 1905, many Bengali writers portrayed the contemporary situation and expressed their protest through their literary creations. The Swadeshi Movement awakened the entire Bengali nation in a new way. There emerged an urge to rediscover everything that was beneficial and beautiful for the country. From everyday life to trade and commerce, a renewed love for indigenous products developed in support of the Swadeshi Movement. Through the boycott of foreign goods, efforts were made to weaken the economic foundation of British imperial power. In the farce, we see that people from ordinary middle-class households, educated youths, and even village housewives came forward to produce Swadeshi goods. However, not the entire Bengali community opposed British rule. Some opportunists, who were employees of the British government and whose lives and livelihoods depended on it, refused to boycott foreign goods. They never supported the Swadeshi Movement. Playwright Amritalal Basu included characters from this class in his farce as well. Their mean mentality and opportunistic outlook evoke a sense of disdain in the minds of readers. In the anti-Partition movement, the entire Bengali nation participated collectively. People from both Hindu and Muslim communities joined the movement in support of an undivided Bengal, the impact of which reached the vast shores of Bengali literature. The Swadeshi Movement found expression in various forms through songs, poems, short stories, novels, essays, and plays. Writers and artists chose their creative works as a language of protest. Alongside protest and the creation of public awareness, they also initiated revolutionaries into the mantra of freedom. Amritalal Basu’s farce “Sabas Bangali” is one such creation. | ||
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