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The National Library of India is a library located in the Belvedere Estate, Alipore, Kolkata, India. [3] It is India's largest library by volume and public record. [4] [5] [6] The National Library is under Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
When the capital moved from Kolkata to Delhi in 1911, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, who had hitherto resided in Belvedere House, was upgraded to a full governor and transferred to Government House. [11] National Library of India, Kolkata, has been housed in Belvedere House since 1948.
The National Library at Kolkata romanisation [1] is a widely used transliteration scheme in dictionaries and grammars of Indic languages.This transliteration scheme is also known as (American) Library of Congress and is nearly identical to one of the possible ISO 15919 variants.
The National Library at Kolkata romanisation, intended for the romanisation of all Indic scripts, is an extension of IAST. It differs from IAST in the use of the symbols ē and ō for ए and ओ (e and o are used for the short vowels present in many Indian languages), the use of 'ḷ' for the consonant (in Kannada ) ಳ , and the absence of ...
The goal of the library was to collect every book written about India at any time. The Assistant Librarian of the British Museum John Macfarlane was the first librarian and was succeeded by the first Indian librarian Harinath De. The library was moved to its present quarters in Belvedere Estate, Alipore and renamed the National Library. It is a ...
Central Reference Library is an Indian National Bibliographic Agency in Kolkata which run under Ministry of Culture of India. [1] It provides bibliographic services to scholars, universities, institutions and government agencies. [2] This library has started doing digitalization of rare and old books and documents. [3]
Harinath De (12 August 1877— 30 August 1911) was an Indian linguist, polyglot, Indologist and an academician, who later became the first Indian librarian of the National Library of India (then Imperial Library) from 1907 to 1911. [2] In a life span of thirty four years, he learned 34 languages. [3]
State Central Library: Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala: 1829 Ernakulam Public Library: Kochi: Kerala: 1870 Maulana Azad Central Library Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh: 1908 Swami Vivekanand Library (BRITISH LIBRARY) Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh: 1965 Asiatic Society of Mumbai: Mumbai: Maharashtra: 1804 Central Library, IIT Bombay: Mumbai: Maharashtra: 1958 David ...