#Online bengali books free#

вЂњWeвЂ™re dealing with historical Bangla and the changes in the language,вЂќ Derrick tells the newspaper, вЂњso the typography is unique. Optical character recognition is being used to transcribe the Bengali script. This is reported by the library to be the beginning of a major program designed to bring the publicвЂ™s attention to the extensive selection of Indian books from the 200-year period in the British Library. The pilot project is a joint venture with the British Library, the School of Cultural Texts and RecordsВ of Jadavpur University Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology and the Library at SOAS University of London, involving collaborations with the National Library of India. There are treatises on sciences, education, religion, missionaries coming to India, and translation of the Bible.вЂќ There are books literally from every discipline you could think of. Tom Derrick, digital curator for the project, is quoted by the Times of India,В saying,В вЂњSo far we scanned 1,000 books.

#Online bengali books free#

Eventually,В 4,000 early printed books in Bengali-with a total of more than 800,000 pagesвЂ“are to be digitized and made available online free of charge as part of an effort called Two Centuries of Indian Print: 1713-1914. The program is part ofВ an international partnership to digitize rare material from the libraryвЂ™s South Asian printed book collection. The Times of India reports that the British Library has scanned 1,000 вЂњold and rare printed Bengali books of the 19th century, according to project co-ordinators.вЂќ From the British Library video вЂDigitzing Two Centuries of Indian Printed BooksвЂ™Д«y Dennis Abrams | вЂEvery Discipline You Could Think OfвЂ™