This work which earned a University of Edinburgh PhD for the author is a penetrating and exhaustive attempt to describe the syntax of the Bengali language. The traditional grammarians usually avoided the Bengali sentence structures, and before this work no attempt was made to study the Bengali syntax in a modern linguistic framework. Dr Humayun Azad's Pronominalization in Bengali is the first in this area, and, after Dr Sunitikumar Chatterji's The Origin and Development of the Bengali language (1926), is perhaps the most important work on any aspect of the Bengali language. 
 
Dr Azad had developed a transformational generative case grammar model integrating Noam Chomsky's and Charles J Fillmore's hypotheses about the underlying structure of natural languages in order to describe the process of pronominzaliation, i.e, the derivation of deictic and anaphoric pronouns, in Bengali. This book comprises eleven chapters describing the base rules needed for Bengali, the structures of the Bengali noun phrases, cases and case markers, pronouns and their derivation, and the structures of relative, reflexive and reciprocal sentences in Bengali. Dr. Azad had gathered a wealth of information and had proposed a very deep and novel analysis of the data. His analysis is so incisive and incontrovertible that many traditional ideas about the Bengali sentences must be dropped after this study. This book will be an invaluable aid to anyone who is intersted in the structure of the Bengali language. The book brings Bengali linguistics up to date with the modern era.