[Digitised Colonial] Bengali Periodicals and Newspapers

http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/thematicportals/periodicals/overview.html


21 Apr 2010

The Virtual Library South Asia (SAVIFA), South Asia Institute/Library, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Self-description:
"Starting in 1993, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) [http://www.cssscal.org/ - ed.] has undertaken the task of microfilming and digitising a huge amount of textual sources, including all the major journals of colonial Bengal. This unique collection also extends to rare Bengali books, Assamese journals and books, as well as visual art and popular culture (such as specimens of historical Bengali advertising). In the course of a Memorandum of Understanding between the CSSSC and the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University [http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/index.php], the textual part of this collection is from now on going to be made available on Savifa, the virtual library South Asia [http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/index.php?la=en - ed.]."

Site contents:
[background and publication details of paper and microfilm copies, plus online access to PDF copies of the Bengali periodicals listed below]:
* A
(# Abodhbandhu (Calcutta, c1867-1869), # Adrsta [Adrishta] (Calcutta, c1896-1897), # Aitihasik Citra (Calcutta, 1905-1910), # Alochana (Calcutta, 1884-1886), # Anjali (Chattagram, c1898-1899), # Antahpura (Calcutta, c1901-1903), # Anubiksana (Calcutta, c1875-1876), # Anusandhan (Calcutta, c1887-1892), # Aryakayastha Pratibha (Faridpur, Pratibha Press, 1910-1922), # Arati (Maimansingha, 1900-1909), # Arunodaya (Calcutta, 1857-1858), # Aryadarshan (Bowbazar (43 Malanga Lane) 1874-1885));
* B
(# Bamabodhini Patrika (Calcutta: Bamabodhini Sabha, 1863-1922), # Bandhaba and Bandhaba Nabaparyaya (Dhaka, 1874-1906), # Bangamahila (Calcutta: Board of Principals, Corbagan Balika Bidyalaya, 1875-1877), # Basantaka (Calcutta: Board of Principals, Chorbagan Balika Bidyalaya, 1874-1875), # Bedabyasa (Calcutta, 1886-1894), # Bharati / Bharati o Balak (Calcutta, 1877-1926), # Bhisak-darpana (Calcutta, 1896-1914), # Bhramar (Calcutta, 1874-1875), # Bibidhartha samgraha (Calcutta, 1851-1861), # Bicitra (Calcutta, Bichitra Niketan, 1927-1939), # Bijnana darpana (Calcutta: 20 Sukiya Street, 1882-1884), # Binapani (Calcutta, 1893-1897), # Birbhumi (Keernahar (Birbhum), 1899-1906), and Birbhumi Nabaparyaya (Keernahar (Birbhum), 1910--1926));
* C-J
(# Cikitsa-sammilani (Calcutta, 1885-1894), # Dasi (Calcutta, 1892-1897), # Grhastha (Calcutta: Grihastha Publishing House, 1909-1913), # Grhasthamangala (Calcutta, 1928-1931), # Government Gazette (Calcutta/Srirampur: Baptist Mission Press, 1850 and 1859-1875), # Hindu-patrika (Calcutta, 1896-1926), # Janayuddha (Calcutta, 249 Bowbazar Street, 1944-1945), # Janmabhumi (Calcutta, 1890-1932));
* K-N
(# Kayastha patrika (Calcutta, 45 Grey Street, 1902-1904), -- later under the title Kayastha patrika nabaparyaya (Calcutta, 45 Grey Street, 1910-1927), # Kayastha Samaj (Calcutta, 1 Cornwallis Street, Kayastha Samaj Karyalaya, 1923-1926), # Krsak (Calcutta, 1901-1930), # Mahajanabandhu (Calcutta, Calcutta Sugar Merchants Association, 1900-1912), # Mahila (Calcutta, 1897-1915), # Masika Basumati (Calcutta, 166 Baubajar Street, Basumati Baidyutik Rotary Machine, 1928 -1944), # Mukti (Purulia: Desabandhu Press, Mukti Press, 1925-1979), # Nabajibana (Calcutta, 1884-1889), # Nabyabharat (Calcutta, 1883-1925));
* P-R
(# Pantha (Calcutta, 120/2 Masjidbadi Street, Aghornath Datta, 1898--1915), # Paricarika (Calcutta, 1880-1905), # Paricarika Nabaparyaya (Coochbehar, 1917-1926), # Prabasi (Allahabad, Purnachandra Das; Calcutta, Prabasi Karyalay, 1901-1964), # Pradipa (Calcutta, 21/1 Sukiya Street, Pradip Karyalaya, 1897-1906), # Punya (Calcutta, 1897-1906), # Purnima (Hooghly, Sabitri Jantra, 1893-1910), # Rahasya sandarbha (Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press, 1862-1874), # Ramadhanu: chelemeyeder sacitra masika-patrika (Bhabanipur, 16 Townsend Road, 1927-1988), # Rangmashal (Calcutta, 1937-1946));
* S-U
(# Sahitya (Calcutta, 3 Beadon Square, 1890-1924), # Sakha (Calcutta, 1883-1892), # Sandesa (Calcutta: U. Ray and Sons, 1913-1926), -- later under the title Sandesa nabaparyaya (Calcutta: U. Ray and Sons, 1931-1936), # Svasthya (Calcutta: Durgadas Gupta, Svastha Karyalaya, 1898-1902), # Svasthya Samacara (Calcutta, 1912-1928), # Tattvabodhini Patrika (Calcutta, 1843-1931), # Udayana (Calcutta, 1933-1935), # Ugraksatriya Pratinidhi (Calcutta: Ugraksatriya Pratinidhi Karyalaya, 1891-1893), # Utsaha (Rajsahi, 1897-1902)).

URL: http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/thematicportals/periodicals/overview.html

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

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* Scholarly usefulness: [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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