 Since Bengal is a part of India, its culture has been an amalgamation of predominant Hindu culture with the secular Bengali culture drawing inspiration from contemporary Western sources

The Bengali language boasts a rich literary heritage, shared with neighbouring Bangladesh.West Bengal has a long tradition in folk literature, evidenced by the "Charyapada", "Mangalkavya", "Shreekrishna Kirtana", "Thakurmar Jhuli", and stories related to Gopal Bhar.In the nineteenth and twentieth
century, Bengali literature was modernized in the works of authors such as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay.