Amiya Dev

Amiya Dev is a scholar, writer and a Bengali critic.

Early life and education

He was one of the very few students who took admission in the first batch of M.A. course in the Department of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University along with Nabaneeta Devsen, Manabendra Bandopadhyay.

Career

In his article 'Comparative Literature in India' Amiya Dev has stated that in a multilingual country like India a diversity of language and literature is noticed. So there is rare possibility of any existence of a single language and literature here. And if we use the term Indian literature in the plural sense, it denies internal relation and kinship of languages. He has discussed unity and diversity among Indian languages and literatures. Keeping Comparative Indian literature in the background, he has looked for interrelation of similarities and dissimilarities in the Indian literary sphere. After observing the scholarly position of unity and diversity, he could not accept the Post-Structuralist tendency of homogenization of diversity in the name of unity. He has legitimised unity through diversity and has manifested the possible pattern of togetherness. He has tried to find out interliterariness of Indian literature through its unity and diversity. He has not seen Indian literature as a general or particular entity, rather he has considered it as an ongoing process, which changes along with time.

He was the editor of Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature for about one and a half decade and was nominated Secretary-General of the Comparative Literature Association of India. Amiya Dev is also the biographer of Sudhindranath Dutta. He was the Vice-President of the International Comparative Literature Association. In the 1990s he served as the Vice-Chancellor of Vidyasagor University and now is a retired person, residing in Calcutta. He continues his career as a scholar and as a writer.

Books published

• Tagore and China, edited by Tan Chung, Amiya Dev, Wang Bangwei, Wei Liming, SAGE India, May 2011.
• Epic and Other Higher Narratives: Essays in Intercultural Studies, edited by Steven Shankman and Amiya Dev, Pearson Education India, August 2010
• Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice, edited by Amiya Dev and Sisir Kumar Das, Allied Publishers Ltd, India, January 1989
• Science, Literature and Aesthetics: History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, edited by Amiya Dev and Poushali Bhaduri, Centre for Studies in Civilisations, December 2009
• Day’s End and Other Bangla Stories, edited by Amiya Dev and Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta, Srishti Publishers and Distributors, 2003
• The Renewal of Song: Renovation in Lyric Conception and Practice, edited by Earl Miner and Amiya Dev, Seagull Books, 1998/ 2000
• Rereading Tagore, Amiya Dev, Niyogi Books, June 2011
• Bipul Taranga Re, Amiya Dev, Karigar, January 2016
• The Idea of Comparative Literature in India, Amiya Dev, Papyrus, 1984
• Ki Ful Jhorilo, Amiya Dev, Sutradhar
• Dui Tirishe October- November Sudhindranath Dutta o Buddhadev Basu, Amiya Dev, Ebong Mushayera
• Mohim Rudrer Mrityu o Onnanyo, Amiya Dev, Bhashashilpo

Essays written

• Buddhadev Basur Mahabharat Cinta
• Buddhadev Basu Pather Bhumika
• Jotnoi Zar Swavab
• Jol Pore Pata Nore
• Amar Rabindranath: Ekti Byaktigoto Nibondho
• Gora Gour Gourimohon
• Rabindranather Nonibala o Aro Keu Keu
• Rabindranather Atmaprotikriti: Ek Onovigner Cokhe

References

• http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/view_department.php?deptid=65
• https://pdfcoffee.com/comparative-literature-in-india-amiya-dev-pdf-free.html
• http://jjcl.jdvu.ac.in/jjcl/

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