Portal:Bengal
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Works related to the ethnolinguistic region of the Indian subcontinent where Bengali is the primary language spoken, including what is now Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura (as well as the Barak Valley of Assam) and what were once the Bengal Presidency of British India, the Bengal province of Mughal India, and ancient kingdoms in the region that preceded the Mughals.
History and Geography
- A Bengal Atlas - Containing Maps of the Theatre of War and Commerce on that side of Hindoostan (1781) by James Rennell (transcription project)
- The History of Bengal, from the first Mohammedan invasion until the virtual conquest of that country by the English, A.D. 1757 (1813) by Charles Stewart (transcription project)
- Historical and Ecclesiastical Sketches of Bengal (1829) by Anonymous (transcription project)
- Siyar-ul-Mutakherin, a history of the Mahomedan power in India during the eighteenth century (1832) by Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai (transcription project)
- The Mutiny of the Bengal Army (1857) by George Bruce Malleson
- Bengal under the Lieutenant-Governors (1901) by Charles Edward Buckland
- Vol. 1 (transcription project)
- Vol. 2 (transcription project)
- Riyaz̤u-s-Salāt̤in (1902) by Ghulam Husain Salim (transcription project)
- Three Frenchmen in Bengal (1903) by Samuel Charles Hill (transcription project)
- Bengal in 1756-57 (1905) by Samuel Charles Hill
- Vol. 1 (transcription project)
- Vol. 2 (transcription project)
- Vol. 3 (transcription project)
- The Musnud of Murshidabad (1704 - 1904) (1905) by Purna Chandra Majumdar (transcription project)
- Bengal District Gazetteers - Howrah (1909) by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley and Monmohan Chakravarti (transcription project)
- The Pālas of Bengal (1915) by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay
- Provincial Geographies of India Vol 2 (Bengal - Bihar & Orissa - Sikkim) (1917) by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley (transcription project)
- History of the Portuguese in Bengal (1919) by Joachim Joseph A. Campos (transcription project)
- The Early History of Bengal (1925) by Francis John Monahan (transcription project)
- Report of the Bengal Boundary Commission (Radcliffe Award) (1947) (transcription project)
Language
See also: Portal:Bengali language and literature
- "Bengali," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- Bengali Literature (1871) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- History of Bengali Language and Literature (1911) by Dinesh Chandra Sen
- History of Bengali Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1919) by Sushil Kumar De (transcription project)
- The History of the Bengali Language (1920) by Bijay Chandra Majumdar
- The Literature of Bengal (1895) by Romesh Chunder Dutt (transcription project)
- Bengali Prose Style 1800-1857 (1921) by Dinesh Chandra Sen (transcription project)
- Introduction to the Bengalee Language (1861) by Shyamacharan Sarkar (transcription project)
- Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language (1801, 3rd ed. 1818) by William Carey (transcription project)
Literature
See also: Portal:Bengali language and literature, Category:Bengali literature and Category:Works originally in Bengali
- A descriptive catalogue of Bengali works (1855) by James Long (transcription project)
- Bengal Fairy Tales (1920) by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt (transcription project)
English works by Bengali authors
- The Bengali Book of English Verse (1918) ed. Theodore Oliver Douglas Dunn (transcription project)
- Toru Dutt
- The English Works of Raja Rammohun Roy (1901) ed. Jogendra Chandra Ghose
- Vol 1 (transcription project)
- Vol 2 (transcription project)
- Vol 3 (transcription project)
- Rajmohan's Wife (1864) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- The Bliss of a Moment (1918) by Benoy Kumar Sarkar (transcription project)
Autobiography
- Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) by Paramahansa Yogananda
- My Reminiscences (1917) by Rabindranath Tagore (transcription project)
- The Autobiography of Maharshi Devendranath Tagore (1914) (transcription project)
- The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951) by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- The Autobiography of an Indian Princess (1921) by Suniti Devi (transcription project)
Society and Culture
- Annals of Rural Bengal by William Wilson Hunter (1872): Vol 1 (transcription project), Vol 2 (Orissa Vol 1) (transcription project), Vol 3 (Orissa Vol 2) (transcription project)
- Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa (1917) by Somerset Playne and J. W. Bond (transcription project)
- Ramtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer - A History of the Renaissance in Bengal (1907) tr. of Ramtanu Lahiri O Tatkalin Bangasamaj (1904) of Sivanath Sastri by Roper Lethbridge (transcription project)
- Glimpses of Bengal: A Comprehensive, Archaeological, Biographical, and Pictorial History of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa (1907) by Arthur Claude Campbell Vol 1 Google Books, Vol 2 Google Books
- Durga Puja - With Notes and Illustrations (1871) by Pratap Chandra Ghosh (transcription project)
- Life by the Ganges, or, Faith and victory (1852) by Hannah Catherine Mullens (transcription project)
Notable people
- A rapid sketch of the life of Raja Radhakanta Deva Bahadur (1859) by Editors of the Raja's Sabdakalpadruma (transcription project)
- Rabindranath Tagore - A Biographical Study (1915) by Ernest Percival Rhys (transcription project)
- The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore (1919) by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (transcription project)
- The Life and Work of Sir Jagadis C. Bose (1920) by Patrick Geddes (transcription project)
- Chaitanya's Life and Teachings (1922): translation of Chaitanya Charitamrita (1582) of Krishnadas Kaviraj by Jadunath Sarkar (transcription project)
- Râmakrishna - His Life and Sayings by Friedrich Max Müller (1916 reprint) (transcription project)
- Life and Letters of Toru Dutt (1921) by Harihar Das (transcription project)
- The Life of Ramakrishna, (Indian ed, 1931) by Romain Rolland, tr. Elizabeth Frances Malcolm-Smith DLI
- The Master as I Saw Him, being pages from the life of the Swami Vivekanada (1910) by Sister Nivedita (transcription project)
- Twelve men of Bengal in the nineteenth century (1910) by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt (transcription project)
- Vidyasagar, the Great Indian Educationist and Philanthropist (1921) by Ananta Kumar Roy (transcription project)
- The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy (1900) by Sophia Dobson Collet and Francis Herbert Stead (transcription project)
- A General Biography of Bengal Celebrities Vol 1 (1889) by Ram Gopal Sanyal (transcription project)
- Bengal Celebrities (1906) by Srikanta Ray (transcription project)
- Life and Work of Romesh Chunder Dutt, C.I.E. (1911) by Jnanendra Nath Gupta (transcription project)
- The Bengal Obituary (2nd ed, 1851) (transcription project)
- List of inscriptions on tombs or monuments in Bengal (1896) by Charles Robert Wilson (transcription project)
Institutions
Scientific works
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- The Elements of Astronomy (1921) by Devendra Nath Mallik (transcription project)
- Optical Theories (1917) by Devendra Nath Mallik (transcription project)
- Essays and Discourses (1918) by Prafulla Chandra Ray
Towns and Cities
- Portal:Calcutta
- The Bansberia Raj (1908) by Shumbhoo Chunder Dey (transcription project)
Miscellaneous
- Cycling in Bengal: a guide to practical tours (1898) by W. S. Burke (transcription project)
- A Manual of Gardening for Bengal and Upper India (3rd ed., 1874) by Thomas Augustus Charles Firminger (transcription project)
- The War of Bengal A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, Volume 2/Book 6 (1861)
External links
- List of books about Bengal Presidency from Fibiwiki