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This language was used for a 1901 novel in which a housewife falls in love with the cousin of her husband while he is busy running a liberal newspaper. A woman who speaks this language moves to the title East London street in the novel Brick Lane. (20[1]0[5])During its early (20[1])20th-century (20[1])“Renaissance,” (0[1])this language (20[1])was used to write (20[1])the novels The Broken Nest and The Home (20[1])and the World (20[1]0[2])by an author (20[1])who used this language for a poem demanding “let my (*) country awake.” (10[2]0[6])A (10[1])1910 (10[1])collection (0[1])written in this language opens with the line “Thou hast made me endless, (10[1])such is thy pleasure” in its English translation, which is titled Song Offerings. For 10 points, name this language used to write Gitanjali (0[2])(“GEE-tan-JAH-lee”) by (0[1])Rabindranath (0[1])Tagore (10[4]0[4])■END■ (10[5]0[11])

ANSWER: Bengali [or Bangla]
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