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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 Writers' Buildings or Mahakaran, often shortened to just Writers ', is the official secretariat building of the state government of West Bengal in Kolkata, India.The 150-metre long building covers the entire northern stretch of the Lal Dighi or Red Lake at the centre of historic B.B.D. Bagh, long considered as the administrative and business hub of the city.
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 ...
The house, built by Bose's father in 1909, [3] is owned and managed by the Netaji Research Bureau and includes a museum, archives and library. The Bureau is run by Sugata Bose and his mother, Krishna Bose. [4] The building is on Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani in Kolkata. Bose escaped from house arrest at Netaji Bhawan in 1941 and fled to Berlin.
Parameswaran Thankappan Nair (30 April 1933 – 18 June 2024) was an Indian writer, independent researcher, historian and Malayali author based in Kolkata, who wrote extensively on the history of Calcutta in the English language. [3] Fondly referred to as the "Barefoot Historian", [4] he published 61 books, with the latest titled "Gandhiji in ...
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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]