Bichitra
Subtitle: online Tagore variorum
By: School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University
Publisher: Jadavpur University, School of Cultural Texts and Records
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Calcutta, India]
Language: eng
Subjects: Bibliography
Other titles: Online Tagore variorum
Description: Bichitra comprises most versions of nearly all Rabindranath's works in Bengali and English. It excludes most letters, speeches, textbooks and translations, except Tagore's translations from his own Bengali. It includes digital images of virtually all his manuscripts and authoritative print versions (books and journals): 47,520 pages of manuscripts and 91,637 pages of printed books and journals; plain-text transcripts of all these versions; a search engine to locate words and phrases in Rabindranath's works; a collation engine to compare different versions of a work at three levels: chapter (in a long prose work) or act/scene (in a play); paragraph (in prose) or stanza (in verse); detailed wording; a checklist of the contents of each manuscript; a bibliography of all authoritative manuscript and print versions of each work.  The project was co-ordinated by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Professor Emeritus, Jadavpur University, with Sankha Ghosh, poet and former Professor of Bengali, Jadavpur University, as adviser. A team of 30 project staff worked for two years to process the material and create the website, alongside many other consultants, advisers and contributors.
Notes: "... May 2013, the Bichitra Tagore Variorum Website under the Project Bichitra has been launched"--General Knowledge Today.

Web site versions in Bengali, English and Hindi.