Collection of Bengali folk tales
Maimansingha Gitika (Bengali : মৈমনসিংহ গীতিকা , lit. 'Mymensingh Ballads') is a collection of Bengali folk ballads from the region of Eastern Mymensingh (Now Netrokona ) Bangladesh .[ 1] They were published in English as Eastern Bengal Ballads . Dinesh Chandra Sen collected the songs, and Dinesh Chandra Sen was the editor; the collection was published by the University of Calcutta , along with another similar publication named Purbabanga-gitika .[ 2] [ 3] Researcher Asaddor Ali from Sylhet claimed that nine famous ballads of Maimansingha Gitika were actually related to the culture of Sylhet in origin.[ 4]