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Rabindra Puraskar
Considered as one of the most prestigious literary awards in West Bengal, Rabindra Puraskar has attained popularity in the Indian subcontinent. Also denoted with Rabindra Smriti Puraskar, this award is considered the highest honorary literary award from India's West Bengal state. State Government sponsors and takes steps to administer it to the best extent to award the literati for innumerable contributions in the field of literature and arts.
History of Rabindra Puraskar
Established soon after India's independence from the colonial British rule, the very first Rabindra Puraskar had been awarded in the year 1950. This award is therefore patronized and governed by the Bengali Academy of West Bengal or Paschimbanga Bangla Academy in Kolkata to maintain thorough transparency in awarding the most prominent personalities from the field of literature and language.
Rabindra Puraskar is awarded in the areas of literature from non-fiction books and those in the creative literature field. The awards are mainly for works on Bengal in the Bengali language and books from other languages amongst others highlighting the Bengali culture, society and politics. The period from 1950 to 1982 saw the awarding of Rabindra Puraskar to one or more writers contributed outstandingly in the field of literature.
This award took new shape in 1983 with Rabindra Puraskar becoming the lifetime achievement award conferred to one or more literati. This trend continued till 2003. The nature of Rabindra Puraskar was changed once again in 2004 and 2005 while the conferring was mainly for outstanding contributions in the field of literature rather than giving it the status of lifetime achievement award.
Rabindra Puraskar has once again become a lifetime achievement award in the area of literature from 2006 and maintains that status till date. One or more writers are conferred this award in recognition of their outstanding contributions in literature.
List of Award Winners
For the complete list of Rabindra Puraskar Awardees, visit the link given below:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Recipients_of_the_Rabindra_Puraskar
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