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Pustak Bipani

A College Street-district publisher that returns 19th-century Bengali prose, plays and local histories to print.

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Pustak Bipani is a Kolkata publisher at 27 Beniatola Lane, in the College Street book district. For more than four decades it has brought nineteenth-century Bengali writing back into print in edited editions.

Its list includes Ramnarayan Tarkaratna's 1854 play Kulin Kulasarbaswa, Kedarnath Datta's 1871 satire Sachitra Guljarnagar, Chandranath Basu's Pashupati-Sambad, Biharilal Sarkar's 1897 Titumir and Sachishchandra Chattopadhyay's life of Bankim, most of them edited by scholars such as Alok Ray and Swapan Basu. Beside them sit district histories like Nadia Kahini and Pabna Jelar Itihas, Sukumar Sen's book on Bengal's place-names, and Sudhir Chakraborty's studies of Bengal's minor sects and their songs.

The house is still active; Sudhir Chakraborty's recent books have come from it.

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Titumir, ba Narkelberiyar Larai

Titumir, ba Narkelberiyar Larai

Biharilal Sarkar · 1981

1897 history; Pustak Bipani ed. by Swapan Basu

Sachitra Guljarnagar

Sachitra Guljarnagar

Kedarnath Datta · 1982

1871 satire reprinted; ed. Chittaranjan Bandyopadhyay

Pashupati-Sambad

Pashupati-Sambad

Chandranath Basu · 1983

1884 novel reprinted; ed. Alok Ray

Babu

Babu

Amritalal Basu · 1983

Play; ed. Chittaranjan Laha and Sanatan Goswami

Shubhabibaha

Shubhabibaha

Saratkumari Chaudhurani · 1983

Novel; introduction by Chitra Deb

Kulin Kulasarbaswa

Kulin Kulasarbaswa

Ramnarayan Tarkaratna · 1987

1854 play; ed. Satyabrata De and Sanatan Goswami

Kalikatar Itibritta

Kalikatar Itibritta

Pranakrishna Datta · 1981

Introduction by Nisith Ranjan Ray

Sekaler Sambadpatre Kalkata

Sekaler Sambadpatre Kalkata

Haripada Bhowmik (comp.) · 1987

Old Calcutta through period newspapers

Bankim-Jibani

Bankim-Jibani

Sachishchandra Chattopadhyay · 1988

1911 life of Bankim; 4th ed., ed. Alok Ray

Sati

Sati

Swapan Basu · 1978

Banglar Sthannam

Banglar Sthannam

Sukumar Sen · 1981

On Bengal's place-names

Nadia Kahini

Nadia Kahini

Kumudnath Mallik

1911 district history; ed. Mohit Ray

Sekaler Daroga Kahini

Sekaler Daroga Kahini

Girishchandra Basu

Ed. Alok Ray and Ashok Upadhyay

Banglar Mandir: Sthapatya o Bhaskarya

Banglar Mandir: Sthapatya o Bhaskarya

Pranab Roy · 1999

Temple architecture and sculpture of Bengal

Sahebdhani Sampraday, Tader Gaan

Sahebdhani Sampraday, Tader Gaan

Sudhir Chakraborty · 1985

Pabna Jelar Itihas

Pabna Jelar Itihas

Radharaman Saha · 2000

Ed. Kamal Chaudhuri

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