Portal:Bengal

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

See also: Category:Bengali authors

• 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

• Shantiniketan; the Bolpur School of Rabindranath Tagore (1916) by William Winstanley Pearson

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