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Original title | বাংলাপিডিয়া |
Translator | Various |
Country | Bangladesh |
Language | Bengali, English |
Subject | Various |
Genre | Encyclopedia |
Publisher | Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh |
Publication date | January 2003 |
Media type | Print (hardcover), CD-ROM, Online |
Pages | 14 Volumes |
ISBN | 984-32-0576-6 |
OCLC | 52727562 |
Original text | বাংলাপিডিয়া online |
Website | en |
Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh is the first Bangladeshi encyclopedia.[1] It is available in print, CD-ROM format and online,[2] in both Bengali and English.[3] The print version comprises fourteen 500-page volumes. The first edition was published in January 2003 in ten volumes by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.[4] with a plan to update it every two years.[5] The second edition was issued in 2012 in fourteen volumes.[6]
Banglapedia was not designed as a general encyclopedia but as a specialized encyclopedia on Bangladesh-related topics.[7] For the encyclopedia's purposes, Bangladesh is defined as the territory comprising ancient Eastern India, Bengal Sultanate, Bengal Subah,Bengal Presidency, East Bengal, East Pakistan, and the independent Bangladesh, in historical succession.[5][8]
The encyclopedia's chief editor is Sirajul Islam.[9] Over 1450 writers and specialists in Bangladesh and abroad helped create the entries.[4][5] Banglapedia has over 5,700 entries in six editorial categories,[2] each of which is overseen by an expert editor,[4][5][8] as well as over 2,000 single and four-colour illustrations and 2,100 cross-references.[4][5]
The project was funded by the Government of Bangladesh, private sector organizations, academic institutes and UNESCO.[4][7] Though its original budget was 800,000 taka (roughly US$10,000), the Asiatic Society eventually spent 80 million taka (roughly US$1 million) on the project.[1][4][9] Despite controversies over entries on the Bangladesh Liberation War and indigenous people, both the Bengali and English versions became popular upon publication.[5]
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