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NOTES AND REFERENCES
1. See Nelson 1993.
2. See Ramanujan 1974.
3. From 1853 to 1855 he published, in the magazine Sambada PrabhQkara, accounts of several Bengali poets of bygone and recent times. His work involved a lot of research into the biographical and social background of the writers, and in that respect he has supplied the foundation of later research in this area.
4. Quoted in Bhattacharya 1975:24.
5. Unfortunately, I could not consult this work before writing this paper and therefore was unable to analyze the extent of this departure as well as the nature of the change.
6. Quoted in Bhattacharya 1975:25-26.
7. Basu 1973:7. Translation mine.
8. Quoted in Bhattacharya 1975:31. Translation mine.
9. See Bhadra 1994:134-43. This review of Dineshchandra's BrhatBanga reveals his very inclusive sense of "history" writing in which even the most apparently trivial item of the culture becomes constitutive of the larger whole. 10. From the Introduction to S. Sen 1970 (1940-56). Translation mine.