The Library of Birsingha Vidyasagar Memorial Hall Rural Library, Birsingha, Ghatal, Paschim Medinipur
Scope & Content:
Custodial history: Established in the year of 1961 this library is a memorial house of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, a well known educationist and social reformer of British India. Birsingha is the birthplace of Vidyasagar. Many books are found which Vidyasagar used to read and gave a foot note on t...
Manuscripts from the Library of Birsingha Vidyasagar Memorial Hall Rural Library
Scope & Content:
Collection of manuscripts from the library of Birsingha Vidyasagar Memorial Hall Rural Library, Birsingha, Ghatal, Paschim Medinipur. Custodial history: Established in the year of 1961 this library is a memorial house of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, a well known educationist and social reformer of...
Images 4 to 10 contain sections from the Tattvabodha, and images 11 to 16 contain sections from the Atmabodha. Both texts belong to Advaita-Vedanta tradition. However, images 2 and 11 contain sections from Vaishnavite texts. No other details are available.; Complete/ Incomplete: Incomplete; Date...
The Library of Rajnarayan Basu Smriti Pathagar, Library Road, Paschim Medinipur
Scope & Content:
Custodial history: With the immense contributions of Henry Vincent Bayley, Raj Narayan Basu and other erudite persons this library was established in 1851 as very first public library of India(as the executive committee of library has claimed for a long times) in Midnapur district of Bengal. Aft...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, Hindi, Oriya, Persian, Sanskrit, and Urdu
Books from the Library of Rajnarayan Basu Smriti Pathagar
Scope & Content:
Collection of books from the library of Rajnarayan Basu Smriti Pathagar, Library Road, Paschim Medinipur. Custodial history: With the immense contributions of Henry Vincent Bayley, Raj Narayan Basu and other erudite persons this library was established in 1851 as very first public library of In...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, Hindi, Oriya, Persian, Sanskrit, and Urdu
A book on socio-religious context with special emphasis on caste distinction. The author has tried to depict a comparative discussion among various religion, either oriental or occidental. He took extract from Ramayana, Mahabharata, Story of Krishna or Vedas to give an intensive character of thi...
A book on religion and society. It was depicted traditional thoughts on Dharma and Society. The writer cited from Veda, Mahabharata and other old religious text as well as he also carried his thoughs with latest European concepts on Society and religion. He continued his discussion on faminine c...