Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum

Sukanta Chaudhuri, the editor of this volume, is Professor Emeritus at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and  was Founder-Director of its interdisciplinary School of Cultural Texts and Records. He was Co-Ordinator of the Bichitra Online Tagore Variorum and General Editor of the Oxford Tagore Translations series. He is also a scholar of the European Renaissance and of textual and editorial theory.About the project:Bichitra was prepared in just over two years at the School of Cultural Texts and Records by a team of thirty project staff plus many specialist contributors and consultants. It was funded by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, to commemorate Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary in 2011. The site is freely accessible, with apparatus in English, Bengali and Hindi, at http://bichitra.jdvu.ac.in/

• ​The Story of the Bichitra Project.- Tagore's Text.- The Bengali Writing System: Fonts and OCR.- Images and Scanning.- Manuscripts and Their Transcription.- Data Management and Hyperbibliography.- Search Engine and Hyperconcordance.- Collation: Prabhed and its Predecessors.- Planning the Website.- Beyond Bichitra.- Appendix.