This collection is made up of the personal photographic material of Ali Muhammad Osman from his childhood, his teenage years in which he experimented as a photographer and sought connections with other photographers, and into his early adulthood in which he went to university and studied visual ...
Private Collection of Butto Kristo Paul's Family, Sobhabazar
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Custodial history: Butto Kristo Paul was born in 1835 near Shibpur in Howrah, Bengal. His father, Lakshminarayan Pal was a petty businessman but not very well off. When Batto Kristo was around 12 years of age he left Shibpur to settle down in his maternal house in Sobhabazar in north Calcutta. H...
An Almanac is a very familiar book to Bengalis. Almanac is essential for performing daily religious rituals. There are different types of databases in an Almanac, including Birth, Death, Pooja, Astrology etc.. B.K. Paul & Co. had also a publication department and these kinds books ware publi...