1912, 2017

Kautukabilāsa (Biography of Maharaja Krishnachandra Ray of Nabadwip)

By Priyanka Basu|December 19, 2017|Uncategorized|0 comments

Kautukabilāsa by Shyamacharan Mukhopadhyay was published in 1864 from the Hindu Press in Calcutta. There were two previous editions of the same text published respectively in 1843 and 1847 from Kamalalay Press and Sambad Bhringadut Press. As the initial subtitle of the text revealed, Kautukabilāsa was primarily published as a collection of humorous stories from the life of Maharaja Krishnachandra Ray of Nabadwip in Bengal. However, the third edition of

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0712, 2017

Cataloguing Bengali rare books

By Farzana Whitfield|December 7, 2017|Uncategorized|0 comments

As one of the co-investigators on the project I have been working with a Bengali cataloguer at SOAS, Priyanka Basu who joined us in April 2017 to enhance the metadata of our Bengali library records and identify further unique titles up to 1914.  Pre 1914 South Asian-language printed books are unavailable in other library collections or are extremely difficult to locate and access. With the aid of a Bengali cataloguer

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0512, 2017

Welcome to the 2 Centuries of Indian Print SOAS blog!

By Farzana Whitfield|December 5, 2017|Uncategorized|0 comments

SOAS Library in partnership with the British Library is proud to be working on the Two Centuries of Indian Print project. Money has been received from the Newton Fund (which uses science and innovation partnerships to promote economic development and social welfare) to digitise unique material from our South Asian printed books collection. The project will digitise 4,000 early printed Bengali books as part of the British Library’s collection, amounting

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