Libraries in Eastern India
Published on: Apr 13, 2007
- Acharya Narendra Dev Pustakalaya
10, Ashoka Marg
Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh
- Allahabad Public Library
Rajkeeya Public Library
Alfred Park
Allahabad 211 002
Tel: 91-52386
- Bangiya Sahitya Parishat
243/1, APC Road
Kolkata 700 006
Subject: Social and cultural history of Bengal, Bengali language and linguistics, Begnali literature; vernacular writings on science, techology and society.
- Bihar Secretariat Library
Patna 800 015
- Centre for Asian Documentation
K-15, CIT Bldgs
Christopher Road
POB 11215
Kolkata 700 014
- Chandannagore Pustakagar
Bagbazar, GT Road
Chandannagore, Hooghly
Hours: 1300-2000 hours, Monday to Friday
Subject: History, religion, philosophy, politics, sociology, biography and travel
Collection: 44,500 books, 30 manuscripts and collection of Bangla, English and French periodicals dating back to 1873.
- Chaitanya Library
4/1 Beadon Street
Kolkata
Subject: Publications from 19th century onwards on law, mathematics, archaeology, literature, philosophy, theatre and religious and puranic texts.
Collection: Over 10,000 books
Special: Vaishnav and Christian literature and children's literature
- Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library
Bankipore
Patna 800 004
Bihar
Tel/Fax:91-612-670109
Email: bngvslib@kar.nic.in
- Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Gangchen Kyishong
Dharmasala 176 215
Tel: 91-22467
Fax:91-23723
Email:ltwa@dsala.tibet.net
- National Library
Belvedere
Kolkata 700 027
Tel: 91-33-4791381
Fax:91-33-4791462
- Shrimati Radhika Sinha Institute and Sachchidananda Sinha Library
(State Central Library, Bihar)
GPO Patna
Patna 800 001
Tel:91-612-221674
- Uttarpara Joykrishno Shadharon Gronthagar
Uttarpara, Hooghly
West Bengal
Subject: physical and natural sciences; Bengal literature and history; archives of rare 19th century publications and periodicals
Special: Collection of Bangla periodicals dating back to 1847 and includes: Somprakash, Digdarshan, Kalpadrumo (1880 onwards), Bamabodhini (1865-73), Tatwabodhini, Aryadarshan, Bangadarshan, Sadhana, Bharati. American Quarterly Review (1808 onwards), Asiatic Annual Register (1800-1811), Asiatic Journal (1816-38), Benaras Magazine (1849-52), Bengal Magazine (1872-77; 1883). Also has a collection of old garmophone records.
- William Carey Granthagar-O-Shangrohoshala
Hooghly
West Bengal
Collection: Rare collection of all books printed in India until 1870. Includes documentation on social, political, and economic history of 18th and 19th century India. G.P. Mafeii's Historicum Indicarum , the oldest book on Indian history, is preserved here. Other major publications include Sanskirt, Bengali and English literature and pamphlets on education, commerce, religious laws, tribal communities, missionary activities in India, prisons, law and order, and the Mutiny of 1857.
