Musicians[edit source | editbeta] Seminal Hindu religious works in Bengali include the many songs of Ramprasad Sen .

His works (still sung today) from the 17th century cover an astonishing range of emotional responses to the goddess Kali, detailing complex philosophical stat ements based on Vedanta teachings and more visceral pronouncements of his love o f the goddess. They are known as Shyama Sangeet and were the literary inspiratio n for Kazi Nazrul Islam's later, famed Shyama Sangeet. There are also the laudat ory accounts of the lives and teachings of the Vaishnava saint Chaitanya Mahapra bhu (the Choitanyo Choritamrit) and Shri Ramakrishna (the Ramakrishna Kathamrita , translated roughly as Gospel of Ramakrishna). There is also a large body of Is lamic literature, that can be traced back at least to Noornama by Abdul Hakim. B ishad Sindhu depicting the death of Hussain in Karbala is very popular novel wri tten by Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Later works influenced by Islam include devotiona l songs written by Nazrul, and popularized by Abbas Uddin, among others.