Abstract: My paper tries to analyze the response of the Bengali Hindu society to Muslim rule in the light of the socio-political changes in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Bengal and to find out whether there was an emergence of a 'new Bengali people' as Sukumar Sen writes in his History of Bengali Language and Literature and also the relationship between the ruling class and the Bengali society which determined the course of social history of the said period. My present study aims to become significant in the sense that it might open up new avenues to the study of literatures of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Bengal and how far society became an integral part of those literatures..
        Keywords- Bengali Hindu Society, Muslim State, 'new Bengali people
 
              
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