Sen's earliest poems were published in the
Education Gazette edited by Peary Charan Sarker, and his first volume of poetry,
Abakash Ranjani, was published in 1871. A second volume of
Abakash Ranjani was published in 1877.
Palashir Juddha (1875), a long epic poem lamenting the betrayal of
Siraj ud-Daulah by his followers and his defeat at the Battle of
Plassey, was an evocative expression of Bengali nationalism in literature, and it established his reputation as a powerful Bengali poet. A contemporary to
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Nabichandra is also known for popularizing the epic narrative in the Bengali language through his reinterpretations of the
Mahabharata in a three-volume epic:
Raivatak (1887),
Kuruksetra (1893) and
Prabhas (1896), where Krishna serves as the protagonist and adventurer during the fall of kingdoms. He wrote biographies of
Jesus,
Buddha, and
Cleopatra in the Bengali language, and made verse translations of the
Bhagavad Gita and the
Markandeya Purana. Nabindrachandra's
Bhanumati (a novel-in-verse) and "Prabaser Patra" (a memoir of his travels) also brought him fame. His five-volume autobiography,
Amar Jiban (My Life), is an important document chronicling the politics and social aspirations of the Bengali literati in the late nineteenth century. ==Bibliography==