This is an academic project, part of my course at National Institute of Design, with a six week time frame. It is indeed a passion project, and there are likely to be some gaps in research and technicalities. The stories, however, are completely true. Please do go through it and bask in the pride and warmth it brings to our hearts. Enjoy!
REFERENCES
Books
Chittaranjan Bandopadhyay (ed) - Two Hundred Years of Bengali Publishing
P. N. Bose – A Hundred Years of Bengali Press
Ramram Basu – Lipimala
Anant Kakba Priolkar – The Printing Press in India
Fiona G. E. Ross – The Printed Bengali Character and its Evolution
Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities
Rakhaldas Bandopadhyay - The Origin of the Bengali Script
Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar – Barna Parichay
Papers
Pollock, Sheldon, The Death of Sanskrit, University of Chicago
Deihl, Katherine Smith, Bengali Types and their Founders, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol 27 No.2 (Feb 1968), p. 335-338
Chandra S., Bokil P., Udaya Kumar D. (2015) Anatomy of Bengali Letterforms: A Semiotic Study. In: Chakrabarti A. (eds) ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 34. Springer, New Delhi
AKM Golam Rabbani, Politics and Literary Activities in the Bengali Language during the Independent Sultanate of Bengal, Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics, Vol 1 No 1 (2008) p. 151-166
Web
D’source | http://www.dsource.in/resource/study-bengali-typeface-public-sphere/documentation-bengali-typeface
Rarh Design Blog: Typography in Bengal | http://blog.rarh.in/?p=86
Ekushey Foundation | www.ekushey.org
OmicronLab | www.omicronlab.com
Cyber Archive of Bengali Graphemes | https://www.academia.edu/11658454/Cyber_Archive_of_Bangla_Graphemes
Census: Distribution of 10,000 persons by language | http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement3.aspx
D. Bandopadhyay, “Satyajit Ray Writes Paintings” https://www.academia.edu/411331/_%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A4_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%8E._Satyajit_Ray_Writes_Paintings_
William Carey Foundation | http://www.wmcarey.edu
The Times of India, “Flower Power Resurrects Carey Legacy” | http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Flower-power-resurrects-Carey-legacy/articleshow/11815226.cms
Special thanks
Knowledge Management Centre, National Institute of Design
School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Jadavpur University Press, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Dr. Abhijit Gupta, Department of English, Jadavpur University (agupta@english.jdvu.ac.in)
Dr. Deeptanil Ray, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Two Centuries of Indian Script, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University (deeptanilray@gmail.com)
Jyotish Sonowal, Indian Type Foundry
Ankita Mitra, M. Des., Digital Game Design, National Institute of Design, Bengaluru
Pratiksha Nath for the help, encouragement and surprising amount of patience.
