Books in Bengali

The live decade ranges below link through to Indian books, photo stories and films on the French in India; or, to be precise, to mini-essays on accounts in Bengali about the places in West Bengal influenced by the French and about encounters between Bengalis and the French and other Europeans (including the British). The individual years link through to specific events in these mini-essays and are cross linked to the books in French pages.

March 2017: a beta version of a seven-and-a-half-minute photo story about the Chandernagore cultural heritage organisation Giri-Doot and its founder Kalyan Chakraborty. As the file is uploading, please click on play to start viewing; when it has finished, just close the page to return to French Books on India.

1760 – 1770

1780 – 1790

1830 – 1840

1860 – 1870

1880 – 1890

1890 – 1900