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Bengali science fiction (Bengali: বাংলা বিজ্ঞান কল্পকাহিনী Bangla Bigyan Kalpakahini) is a part of Bengali literature containing science fiction elements.[1] It is called Kalpabigyan (কল্পবিজ্ঞান lit.'fictional science'),[2][3][4][5] or stories of imaginative science, in Bengali literature.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][2][13][14][4][15][16] The term was first coined by Adrish Bardhan[17][18][19][20] during his editorship years.

  1. ^ "The Future in the Past: Can Bengali science fiction grow up?". 7 January 2018. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Culture : Bengal : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". sf-encyclopedia.com.
  3. ^ বিজ্ঞানী ঘনাদা. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  4. ^ a b Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2017). "Kalpavigyan and Imperial Technoscience: Three Nodes of an Argument" (PDF). Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 28 (1): 102–112. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Bengali SF history". Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  6. ^ Guha, Dip Ghosh & Soham (2 June 2019). "Adrish Bardhan (1932-2019) single-handedly put science-fiction in the Bengali reader's imagination". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  7. ^ পরলোকে বাংলার কল্পবিজ্ঞান কিংবদন্তি অদ্রীশ বর্ধন. The Indian Express (in Bengali). 21 May 2019. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  8. ^ দেখা: অস্তিত্বসঙ্কটে ধুঁকছে বাংলার বিজ্ঞানপত্রিকা ও কল্পবিজ্ঞান. Eisamay (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  9. ^ কলকাতার কড়চা: নব রূপে কাঞ্চনজঙ্ঘা. Anandabazar Patrika (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 23 August 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  10. ^ বিদ্যাসাগর পুরস্কার পাচ্ছেন অনীশ দেব. Eisamay (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  11. ^ "CoFUTURES: Publications". Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  12. ^ "The Short-lived Glory of Satyajit Ray's Sci-Fi Cine Club". 9 May 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  13. ^ Hoene, Christin (2020). "Jagadish Chandra Bose and the anticolonial politics of science fiction". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 58 (2): 308–325. doi:10.1177/0021989420966772.
  14. ^ Mondal, N. C. (March 2012). "Popular Science Writing in Bengali - Past and Present" (PDF). Science Reporter. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2022.
  15. ^ Banerjee, Suparno. Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity. New Dimensions in Science Fiction. University of Wales Press. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023 – via University of Chicago Press.
  16. ^ "SF History (India)". Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  17. ^ সায়ান্স আর ফিক্‌শনের শুভবিবাহ. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  18. ^ অদ্রীশ বর্ধনঃ যেমন দেখেছি. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  19. ^ অদ্রীশ গ্যালারী. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  20. ^ কলকাতার কড়চা. Anandabazar Patrika. Archived from the original on 23 August 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2023.