Bangla Panjikay Purono Kolkata

Description of the book Title: Bangla Panjikay Purono Kolkata Author: Nilay Kumar Saha Publisher: Setu Prakashani Place: Kolkata, West Bengal ISBN: 978-81-950222-7-4 Year of publication: March 2022 Pages: 312, Hard Bound Price: Rs 500 About the Book This valuable work provides a rich repository of information that will potentially unleash new trends in writing the social history of colonial urban Calcutta. Reconstructing this history on the basis of printed almanacs will prove to be as innovative and useful a project as were once the lists provided by James Long on Bengali print culture, Dinesh Sen’s compilation of ballads and folk literature of east Bengal or Panchanan Mondol’s researches on early modern manuscripts. Nilay Saha’s work stands testimony to persistence, patience and painstaking labour and I take this occasion to congratulate Setu Prakashani for supporting this valuable enterprise. Amiyaprosad Sen Hony. Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford