''Bibliotheca Indica'' is a series of "books belonging to or treating of

Oriental The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term ''Occident'', which refers to the Western world. In English, it is largely a meto ...

literatures and contains original text editions as well as translations into English, and also

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, dictionaries, grammars, and studies" on Asia-related subjects in other disciplines (such as ethnology). The series was launched in 1849 and published by the Asiatic Society of

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and subsequently by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal and then by

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. Publisher's advertisements of the early 20th century showed the Bibliotheca Indica as being divided in three "series" (in fact, subseries): Sanskrit Series, Tibetan Series, and Arabic and Persian Series. The Society's website in 2022 reports that the languages published in the series include "Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Rajasthani, Kashmiri, Hindi, Bengali, Tibetan, Kui, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, (...) sometime with nglishtranslations". The majority of the books in the series are now in the

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and are now available on the Internet as digital downloads. In addition, all of the Bibliotheca Indica books are available on The Asiatic Society's Digital Library is "available only on the

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of the Society premises".Annual Report and Audit Report 2020-21
asiaticsocietykolkata.org. Retrieved 20 November 2022.

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'', Vol. 18, No. 3 (1864), pp. 645-648 Asian studies journals Book series