Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society

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Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society was first published 1907 and is a very valuable source of information.

There are published indexes, each of one volume, as follows: Volumes 1 (July 1907)-8 (June 1914); Volumes 9 (1914)-18 (1919); Volumes 1 (1907)-85 (1966); Volumes 1 (1907)-104 (1985). In addition, the British Library has an index for Volumes 19-29. Unfortunately, none of these appear to be available online.

Note that a different Journal, with a somewhat similar name, is the Calcutta Historical Journal, published by the University of Calcutta, first published July 1976,

Editions available on Hathi Trust Digital Library

Restricted access only, possibly available to those in North America and some other countries Hathi Trust Digital Library catalogue entry

Editions previously available on the Digital Library of India, now available Archive.org

Editions were previously available on the Digital Library of India to download as pdfs. The following edition information is taken from the DLI catalogue details, amended if otherwise known. The year may be the date the articles were originally published, or the date the book editions were published. Some digital volumes may contain further editions at the back.

Mirror editions of these files are now available on Archive.org, where the files may be read online, or downloaded.

Additional files with good quality digitisation, (but with book readers for reading online which are less convenient that that used by Archive.org), are also available.
Volumes 1, 4 and 5 Searchable, read online or download Jstor.org, South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images.

Volumes available on the Government of India website Indian Culture, from the collection of the Archaeological Survey Of India Library follow, including the ASI reference number. To read online, click on "open Flipbook". If required, to navigate the pages, use the icon at the bottom of the book reader "Table of Contents" and use the thumbnails to navigate the book. Download does not appear to be directly available, but you can "create" an ASI pdf URL in the format http://ignca.nic.in/Asi_data/31295.pdf

1908 264p 31270; 1908 430p 31271; 1908 543p 31272; 1908 411p 31273; 1909 638p 31274; 1910, Volume 5 402 p 31275; 1910 178p 31276; 1910 409p 31277;
1911 250p 31278; 1914 296p 31279; 1914 312p. 31280; 1915 331p 31281; 1915 300p 31282; 1916 326p 31283; 1916 298p 31284; 1917 308p 31285; 1917 137p 31286; 1917 31287; 1918 305p 31288; 1919 200p 31289; 1919, Vol. 19 202 p 31290; 1920, Vol.20 200p 31291; 1920, Vol. 21 200p 31292; 1921 200p 31293; 1921, Vol. 23 192p 31294;
Index to Volumes I -VIII 96p 31295.

Update: Early November 2020. The above digital files have been uploaded to Internet Archive (Archive.org) with URLs with the format https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.31295

Vol. 1 July - December, 1907

Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society

Editions available on Hathi Trust Digital Library

Editions previously available on the Digital Library of India, now available Archive.org

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