Bangabhasha o Sahitya
Bangabhasha o Sahitya
Dinesh Chandra Sen · 1949
First book under the Sahitya Samsad name
Sahitya Samsad was built by Mahendranath Dutta (1899–1987), who had managed the Sri Saraswati Press in Kolkata since 1923. His first books under the Samsad name came out in 1949 and 1950. Three illustrated rhyme books for children sold well, and on 1 August 1951 he founded Shishu Sahitya Samsad; the house counts its years from 1951.
Samsad is best known for reference books. The Samsad Bangla Abhidhan came out in 1957, followed by its Bengali–English and English–Bengali dictionaries and the Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan, a biographical dictionary of Bengalis. Its series of collected works began in the 1950s with the first volume of Bankim Rachanabali.
The two imprints share an office at 32A Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata, and are still publishing. The house marked 75 years in 2025.
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