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[Books on Learning Bengali][ NA Institutes teaching Bengali ]
[Bengali Dictionaries ]

Books on Learning Bengali

Title	Author	Publication Information	Price	Other
TEACH YOURSELF BENGALI	by William Radice	French and European Publishing Company, 150-5th Avenue, NY, NY 10002, USA phone: (214) 673-7400 ISBN: 0785 910 522	book alone $16.95 USA book and 2 cassette set $25.95 USA	First published in UK (1994) by HODDER HEADLINE Plc 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH, UK First published in USA (1994) by NTC Publishing Group 4255 West Touhy Avenue, Lincolnwood (Chicago) Illinois 60646 - 1975, USA ISBN 0-8442-3752-3
LEARN BENGALI Yourself	Bidhubhusan Dasgupta	Published by A. Das Gupta (1989) C-15 College Street Market Calcutta - 700007, India	Indian Rupees 18.00
LEARN BENGALI IN 30 DAYS	N S R Ganathe	Published by Balaji Publications (1986) 103 Pycrofts Road	Indian Rupees 12.50
TEACH YOURSELF BENGALI	Sumana Mukharji	First Edition, 1991 Published by Hippocrene Books Inc., 171 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ISBN 0-87052-619-7 (pkb.)	$ 6.95
LEARN BENGALI FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS	Suniti Kumar Chatterji	Published in USA by Saphrograph Corp. 194 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY 10012
BENGALI FOR GLOBETROTTER (German)	Rainer Krack	Peter Rump Verlag Buddestrasse 15 D-4800 Bieklefeld 1 Germany ISBN 3-922376-07-x
Oxford Picture Dictionary ENGLISH- BENGALI	E C Parnwell	Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK (1989) ISBN 0 19 562156 5	Price : Indian Rupees : 17.50

Institutional Bengali in North America

The following list contains information about institutions that teach Bengali in North America.

Name	Program	Address Contact
University of California Berkeley	Bengali Studies Initiative	Center for South Asia Studies 10 Stephens Hall University of California Berkeley, California 94720-2310 Phone: (510) 642-3608
Columbia University	Middle East Languages and Asian Languages and Cultures	Columbia University New York NY 10027
Harvard University	The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies	Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies 1 Bow Street Cambridge MA 02138 Phone: (617) 495-3295
UCSD	Linguistics Language Program	Mail Code 0108 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 (619) 534-3600 sharon@bend.ling.ucsd.edu, Ronald W. Langacker, fax: (619) 534-4789
University of Pennsylvania	South Asia Regional Studies	University of Pennsylvania 820 Williams Hall 36th and Spruce Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Phone: 215-898-7475

List of Bengali Dictionaries

Bhattacharjee, Jatindra Mohan. Banala Abhidhana Granthera Paricaya: 1743 Haite 1867 Khrishtabda Paryanta. Kalikata: Kalikata Bisvabidyalaya, 1970.
Biswas, Sailendra. Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary. Calcutta: Sahitya Samsad, 1968.
Bykova, M.A. Elizarova. Bengalsko-Russkii Slovar. Moscow: Gos. Izd-Vo Inostrannykh I Natsionalnykh Slovarei, 1957.
Carey, William. Dictionary of The Bengalee Language.Carey's A Dictionary of the Bengali Language: In which the Words are Traced to their Origin and their Various Meanings Given = Bamla-Imreji Abhidhana. Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1981.
Dabbs, Jack Autrey. A Short Bengali-English, English-Bengali Dictionary. College Station: Department of Modern Languages, Texas A&M University, 1971.
Dasa, Jnanendramohana. Bangala Bhashara Abhidhana. Kalikata: Sahitya Samsada, 1979.
Debabarma, Ajitabandhu. Kaka-Rabam = English-Tripura Dictionary = Ingreji-Tipra Bhashabhidhana. Agartala: Siksha Adhikara, Tripura, 1967.
Dev, Ashu Tosh. Students' Favourite Dictionary (Bengali to English); Includes All Bengali Words, Current, Colloquial, and Literary, Compound Words, Phrases, Idioms, Technical Terms In Current Use, New Coinages, Proverbs, Proper Names and Their English Equivalents, with Illustrations of Their Idiomatic Use, Supplemented by Valuable Appendices Packed with Miscellaneous Information. Calcutta: Dev Sahitya Kutir, 1972.
Dev, Ashu Tosh. Sabdabodha Abhidhana. 1976.
Gupta, Sudhamsusekhara. Ramayani Banala Abhidhana. 1974.
Haq, Muhammad Enamul. Bamladesera Byabaharika Bamla Abhidhana. Dhaka: Bamla Ekademi, 1974-1984.
Novikova, V. A. Khrestomatiia Po Bengalskoi Proze Xix Veka. Sost. V. A. Novikova. Moscow: Izd-Vo Vostochnoi Lit-Ry, 1960.
Olsen, Viggo B. Muslima Bamla-Imreji Abhidhana = A Muslim Bengali-English Dictionary. Chittagong: Pakistan Co-Operative Book Society Ltd., 1967.
Sen, Sukumar. An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali, C. 1000-1800 A.D. Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, 1971.
Sen, Amalendu. Jiba-Abhidhana. 1973. A Bengali and English zoological dictionary.
Star Publications Staff. Progressive Bengali English Dictionary. French and European Publications, 1992.