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Art:

  • Art and Life in Bangladesh - Henry Glassie
  • Tebhaga: An Artist's Diary and Sketchbook - Somnath Hore
  • Terracotta Art of Bengal - S.S.Biswas
  • Crafts of West Bengal - Prabhas Sen, S. Mahalanobis (Photopgrapher)

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    Biography & Memoirs:

  • A Poet Apart : A Literary Biography of the Bengali Poet Jibanananda Das - - Clinton B. Seely

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  • Life of Tagore - Prabhat Mukherjee
  • Awara Messiah: A Biography of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee - Vishnu Prabhakar
  • Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man - Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson
  • Beyond the Human Species: The Life and Work of Sri Aurobindo.. - G. V. Vrekham

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    Cinema:

  • Films and Books by Satyajit Ray
  • Chasing the Truth : The Films of Mrinal Sen - John W. Hood
  • The Maverick Maestro : Mrinal Sen - Dipankar Mukhopadhyay
  • La Nuit Bengali/Bengali Night (starring Soumitra, Shabana..)- Dir. Nicolas Klotz (VHS, video)
  • The River - Dir. Jean Renoir (VHS, video)

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    Cuisine:
     

  • From Bengal to Punjab: The Cuisines of India - Smita Chandra
  • Bengali Cooking: Seasons and Festivals - Chitrita Banerji, Deborah Madison
  • Delicious Bengali Dishes - Aroona Reejhsinghani
  • Cooking for the Gods: The Arts of Home Ritual in Bengal - Pika Ghosh (Ed.), Michael Meister (Ed.) and Edward C. Dimock (Ed.)

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    Education

  • Education in the Darjeeling Hills : A Historical Survey, 1835-1985 - Dick B. Dewan

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    General

  • Infinite Variety: Women in Society and Literature - Firdausi Azim and Niaz Zaman (E ds.)
  • The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank - David Bornstein
  • A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement - Ranajit Guha and Amartya Sen
  • History of Bengali Literature - Sukumar Sen
  • Pessimism and Contemporary Bengali Literature - Biplab Chakraborti
  • Raj and Literature:Banned Bengali Books - Hiranmoy Bhattacharya
  • Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore - Rabindranath Tagore
  • Emerson and Tagore: The Poet as Philosopher - Yeager Hudson
  • Voices from Within : Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women - Malavika Karlekar
  • Bengali Women - Manisha Roy
  • Calcutta: The Living City: The Past (Vol.1); The Present & The Future (Vol.2) - Sukanta Chaudhuri (Ed.)
  • Empire of the Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace - Sudipta Sen
  • Idioms of Improvement; Vidyasagar and Cultural Encounter in Bengal - Brian Allison Hatcher
  • Mind Body and Society: Life and Mentality in Colonial Bengal - Kuruvila Zachariah ( Ed.) and Rajat K. Ray (Ed.)
  • Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal - Partha Chatterjee (Ed.)
  • West Bengal and the Federalizing Process in India - Marcus F. Franda
  • Ancient Bangladesh: A Study of the Archaeological Sources - Dilip K. Chakraborty
  • The Bengal Muslims 1871-1906: A Quest for Identity - Rafiuddin Ahmed
  • The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India 1900-1910 - Peter Heehs
  • Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905-1947 - Suranjan Das
  • Continuity and Change in Rural West Bengal - G. K. Leiten
  • From Field to factory - Community Structure and Industrialization in West Bengal - Morton Klass
  • Hindu Revivalism in Bengal C1872-1905: Some Essays in Interpretations - Amiya P. Sen

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    Language:

  • Bengali : A complete Course for Beginners - William Radice - Audio
  • Bengali : A complete Course for Beginners - William Radice - Print
  • Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary - Sahitya Samsad
  • A comparative Stuty of Santali and Bengali - Byomkes Chakrabarti
  • Learning the Bengali Alphabet - Bani Paul, Sachin Basak

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    Literature:
  • Rabindranath Tagore, An Anthology - Ed. Krishna Dutta and A. Robinson
  • Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore
  • The Home and The World - Rabindranath Tagore
  • The Post Office - Rabindranath Tagore; Krishna Dutta (Ed.) and Andrew Robinson (Tr. )

  • Emerson and Tagore: The Poet as Philosopher - Yeager Hudson
  • Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore - Herbert F. Vetter (Ed.)
  • The One and the Many: Readings from the Work of Rabindranath Tagore - William Radice (Tr.) and John Berridge (Photographer)
  • Tagore Reader - Rabindranath Tagore, Amiya Chakravarty (Ed.)
  • It Does Not Die: A Romance - Maitreyi Devi
  • Bengal Nights - Mircea Eliade, Catherine Spencer (Tr.)
  • Imaginary Maps : Three Stories - Mahasweta Devi
  • Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels : A Selection of Bengali Short Stories by Kalpana Bardhan (Editor)
  • Poetry From Bengal by Ron D.K. Banerjee (Translator)
  • Freedom Song: Three Novels - Amit Chaudhuri
  • The Game in Reverse : Poems of Taslima Nasrin - Taslima Nasrin

  • Amitav Ghosh

  • The Shadow Lines
  • In an Antique Land
  • The Calcutta Chromosome : A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery 

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    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  • Arranged Marriage : Stories
  • The Mistress of Spices
  • Black Candle : Poems About Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
  • Leaving Yuba City : Poems
  • We, Too, Sing America : A Reader for Writers
  • Sister of My Heart
  • Children's Literature


     
     


     
     
     

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    Music:

  • Concert for Bangladesh - George Harrison - VHS tape
  • Songs of Love and Ecstasy - Purna Das Baul (CD, audio)
  • Inner Knowledge - Paban Das Baul (CD, audio)
  • Real Sugar - Paban Das Baul, Sam Mills (CD, audio)
  • Songs of Kabir - Kabir, Rabindranath Tagore (Tr.)
  • In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali - Edward C. Dimock
  • The Path of the Mystic Lover: Baul Songs of Passion and Ecstasy - Bhaskar Bhattacharyya and Nick Douglas (Eds.)
  • Folk-music of eastern India :with special reference to Bengal - Sukumaara Raacya
  • Indian Concept of Rhythm - Arun Kumar Sen
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