Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 First page of Baṅgadarśan, edited by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, 1872 48
1.2 Title page of Baṅgadarśan (Nabaparyyāẏ), edited by Rabindranath Tagore, showing the names of contributing writers 58
2.1 Line drawings of leaves accompanying an essay on indigenous foliage 81
2.2 A page from “Betāler Baiṭhak”, a question-answer section of Prabāsī 82
2.3 A page from “Bibidha Prasaṅga”, Prabāsī, the editorial column of Ramananda Chattopadhyay 84
2.4 A page from “Pārāpārer ḍheu”, the women’s section of Prabāsī, with an essay on the ‘foundations of Russian Communism’ 85
2.5 “Shah Jahan” by Abanindranath Tagore. Prabāsī, v. 25, pt. 1, #3, Āṣāṛh 1332 / June-July 1925 86
2.6 “Last days of Shah Jahan” by Abanindranath Tagore. Prabāsī, v. 15, pt. 2, # 1, Kārtik 1322 / October-November 1915 87
2.7 “Buddha, Jasodhara and Rahul” by Nandalal Bose. Prabāsī, v. 22, pt. 1, # 1, Baiśākh 1329 / April-May 1922 88
2.8 “From the Dargah” by Mohammad Abdar Rahman Chughtai. Prabāsī, v. 22, pt. 1, # 3, Āṣāṛh 1329 / June-July 1922 89
2.9 A page from “Mahilā Majlis”, the women’s section of Prabāsī 101
2.10 Simple lessons in drawing animals, “Cheleder Pāttāṛi”, the children’s section of Prabāsī 102
4.1 Title page of the inaugural issue of Āl-Eslām, Baiśākh 1322 / April-May 1915 193
4.2 First page of the inaugural issue of Māsik Mohāmmadī, Kārtik 1334 / October-November 1927 198
4.3 Cover page of Māsik Mohāmmadī, Year I, Phālgun 1334 / February-March 1928 199
4.4 Title page of first volume, first part of Moslem Bhārat, Baiśākh – Āświn 1327 / April-October 1920 202
4.5 Title page of Eid Special Issue of Nabanūr, 1907 203
5.1 Aparna Devi, daughter of Congress leader Chittaranjan Das, shown reading Māsik Basumatī 289
5.2 First page of the inaugural issue of Antaḥpur, an early women’s periodical 292
5.3 A page from Ānnesā (1328 / 1922), the first periodical for Muslim women 316
5.4 A page from “Mahilā Mehfil” (the women’s section of Māsik Mohāmmadī) showing a chapter from Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s serialized essay “Abarodhbāsinī” 322
6.1 First page of Bhāratbarṣa Śrābaṇ, 1327 / July-August 1920. The Bengali characters of the word Bhāratbarṣa have been designed following Persian calligraphic style. 333
6.2 A page from Bhāratbarṣa showing Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Rabindranath Tagore’s niece and daughter of Bhāratī editor Swarnakumari Devi, spinning the carkā 334
Tables
1.1 Total book and periodicals registered in Bengal 38
1.2 Uni-lingual periodicals production in Bengal 38
2.1 Circulation figures of miscellaneous periodicals (figures mostly from the Final Quarter Reports of years shown) 119
2.2 Statistics for requisition of books not in the open shelf collection of the reading room (of the Imperial Library) 119