Bangiya Sahitya Parishat

Bangiya Sahitya Parishat

Façade of Bangiya Sahitya Parishat building
Other name	বঙ্গীয় সাহিত্য পরিষৎ
Established	23 July 1893; 130 years ago (23 July 1893)
Focus	Study and development of the Bengali Language and Literature.
President	Baridbaran Ghosh
Formerly called	Bengal Academy of Literature
Address	243/1, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700006
Location	Kolkata , West Bengal , India
Website	bangiyasahityaparishat.org

Bangiya Sahitya Parishat is a literary society in Maniktala of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Established during the time of the British Raj, its goal is to promote Bengali literature, both by translating works in other languages to Bengali and promoting the production of original Bengali literature.

The organisation was founded by L. Leotard and Kshetrapal Chakraborty in 1893. Then it was known as The Bengal Academy of Literature.^[1] On 29 April 1894, the name of the society itself was changed to Bangiya Sahitya Parishat. 1894 saw the first officers, with Romesh Chunder Dutt as the first president and Rabindranath Tagore and Nabinchandra Sen as vice presidents.^[2]

See also

• Manipuri Sahitya Parishad

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