RABINDRANUSARI KAVISAMAJ (Poets in the wake of Rabindranath) is a dependable and thorough histoty of the junior contemporaris of Rabindranath who flourished in the 20's of the 20th century. They were brought up ir, the fame, literary and aesthetic traditions. that moulded Rabindranath, but had their own distinctive poetical identities. and personal styles. This critical study reveals their personal perspectives and places them in their graded posi- tions in the literary history. Satyendranath Dutta, Karunanidhan Bandyopadhyay, Jatindramohan Bagchi, Kumudranjan Mullick, Kalidas Roy, Jatindranath Sengupta, Mohitlal Majumder, Nazrul Islam are all distinchive dominaries where Rabindranath was super-nova. With- out Rabindranath in history they could have been eminent poets of traditional distinctions. The last three poets were the forerunners of the Bengali modern poetry. This literary asessinent by Professor Arunkumar Mukhopadhyay makes a meaningful study of the aforesaid band of poets.
Professor Arunkumar Mukhopadhyay, formerly Professor and Chairman of the Department of Bengali language and literature in the University of Calcutta, possesses a brilliant academic career. Born in 1930, he spent a part of his boyhood days in Rangpur (now in Bangladesh). He won Surendranalini Gold Medal and Krisnakumar Dutta Silver Medal along with Asutosh Mookherjee Birthday Memorial Prize in his B.A. Honours in Bengali from Calcutta University. Alter receiving his M.A. in Bengali from Calcutta University in 1952, he took his Ph. D. in 1957 from the same University on the Nineteenth Century Bengali Lyrical Poetry. In 1984 he was awarded D. Litt by Calcutta University on Bengali short stories. After serving Presidency College, Calcutta, for a decade he joined the University of Calcutta in 1969. Author of nearly three dozen books and a large number of research papers, Professor Mukhopadhyay has a sustained interest in the fields of language, literature and social studies. Now he works as the director of Amulyadhan Mukherjee Centre for Social Studies (Maghamallar, Kolkata 19).