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The Calcutta School-Book Society was an organisation based in Kolkata during the British Raj. It was established in 1817, with the aim of publishing text books and supplying them to schools and madrasas in India.
John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801–1851) was an English educator, mathematician and polyglot known for promoting women's education in India. [1] He was the founder of Calcutta Female School (now known as Bethune College) in Calcutta, [2] which is considered the oldest women's college in Asia. [3]
The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom. [3] It is one of the largest libraries in the world . It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries.
The library collects book, periodicals, and titles in virtually all the Indian languages while the special collections in the National Library of India house at least fifteen languages. [13] The Hindi department has books that date back all the way to the nineteenth century and the first ever books printed in that language.
Fort William College (also known as the College of Fort William) was an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 18 August 1800 by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India, located within the Fort William complex in Calcutta. Wellesley started the Fort William College with the original intention that it ...
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 ...
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (formerly CURL) [1] comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collection in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves.
In Calcutta, Archbishop Goethals started a Catholic printing press, establishes several new parishes and gathered a collection of more than 6000 books on India (religions, geography, travels, culture and languages) that became the nucleus of the present Goethals Indian Library and Research Centre (attached to St. Xavier's College, Calcutta ...