Bardhaman Raj Itibritta, a comprehensive history of the erstwhile Burdwan Raj family, written originally in Bengali by Sri Nirod Baran Sarkar, Sahitya Vinod deserves acclamation, not as a history or a chronicle only, but as a treatise of authenticated documents. Besides being a factual narrative of the Brudwan Raj family around 350 years of their stay in Burdwan, the book is a credential to the development and growth of Burdwan as the hub of an exclusive culture. ...