Collection of poems on the role of women in daily life in the nineteenth century Bengal. Date of original material: 1287 [B. S.] 1880. Calendar/Era: Bengali Calendar/BS. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: Printed book in Bengali; Brittle and damaged by the book-worms. The...
The book is on the justifications against the widow remarriage. The author tried to prove the illigegality of widow remarriage through the ancient Hindu texts. Date of original material: 1295 [B. S.] 1888. Calendar/Era: Bengali Calendar/BS. Extent and format of original and physical characteristi...
Life and messages of Svami Santdasa or Tara Kishor Caudhury (1859 - 1935) a Hindu saint based in Howrah. Date of original material: 1342 [B. S.] 1935. Calendar/Era: Bengali Calendar/BS. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: Printed book in Bengali; Brittle and damaged by the...
A short version of Mahabharata for children.Edited by Yogindranatha Sarkara, this book have all eighteen parts of the epic in shorter form and in easy Bengali language used for rapid reading exercises in schools of Bengal and Orissa. Date of original material: 1336 [B. S.] 1929. Calendar/Era: Ben...
Short biographies of famous icons in undivided Bengal. This book contains biographies of Rammohun Ray, Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, Chittaranjan Das, Jagadis Chandra Bose, Sayyad Amir Ali, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, Rabindranath Tagore and Prafulla Chandra Ray. Date of original material: 1352 [B. S.] 19...
Collection of religious stories on the autumn festival of goddess Durga. Date of original material: 1817 [Shaka] 1895. Calendar/Era: Sakabda/Saka. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: Printed book in Bengali; Brittle and damaged by the book-worms. The original volume with l...
An introduction to the process of expiation or attonement in Hindu philosophy. Date of original material: 1333 [B. S.] 1926. Calendar/Era: Bengali Calendar/BS. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: Printed book in Bengali; Brittle and damaged by the book-worms. The original ...
Textbook on physical and economic geography for the school students. It contains the brief ideas about formation of earth and its motions in the solar system, the political and economic divisions between the countries and reasons behind the divisions. The book also give a brief idea about the fiv...
A brief discussion on different crimes against women with special references in Bengal. It contains different incidents including domestic violence, rape abduction etc. Date of original material: 1340 [B. S.] 1933. Calendar/Era: Bengali Calendar/BS. Extent and format of original and physical char...
Balmiki Ramayana edited by Umescandra Bidyaratna and Abhayacarana Tarkaratna. Only the Kishkindhyakanda is available in this book. Date of original material: 1797 [Shaka] 1875. Calendar/Era: Sakabda/Saka. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: Printed book in Sanskrit; Brittl...