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This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue III, March 2026
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Collaboration resumes with the British Library for Bangla Wikisource
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Collaboration resumes with the British Library for Bangla Wikisource
The Two Centuries of Indian Print (TCIP) project of the
British Library
digitizes rare books from its South Asian collection, which were published during the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent. Back in 2020-21, TCIP and
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
collaborated with each other to bring high quality scanned Bangla language books to Bangla Wikisource and organized two proofread competitions together to transcribe and proofread those books. Unfortunately, when Tom Derrick, the digital curator for the TCIP project and the main contact from the British Library, left his job, the collaboration suddenly stopped and it could not be resumed because
British Library online information systems was cyber-attacked
in 2023. However, last year, when Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Digital Curator for Asian and African Collections participated in the
Wikisource Conference, 2025
, the communication resumed again. Due to the setbacks received by the cyberattack, it took several more months of discussion to effectively start the upload of the Bangla books from TCIP again. Heartfelt thanks to Adi for her continuous support, without which, it would not be possible to start over the
collaboration
once again after five long years.
11 volumes of high quality scans of bilingual Encyclopædia Bengalensis
Translations of western classics like Ivanhoe, Tempest etc.
Lucid translation series of Gulliver's travels, Uncle Tom's Cabin etc.
A cookbook published by a royal family of Bengal
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