Rabindranath Tagore presided over the inaugural session of the Bangiya Sahitya Sammelan (Bengal Literary Conference) held at Kashimbazar in 1912. This conference was a significant cultural gathering celebrating Bengali literature. Tagore's presidency was fitting given his stature as the leading literary figure of Bengal after his Nobel Prize win. Vidyasagar had passed away by 1891, and Sarat Chandra was a novelist, not associated with presiding over this specific conference.