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| other_name = বঙ্গীয় সাহিত্য পরিষৎ<br />
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| address = 243/1, [[AJC Bose Road & APC Road|Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road]], Kolkata-700006<br />
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[[File:Bangiya Sahitya Parisad.jpg|thumb|Bangiya Sahitya Parishad<br>6 December 1908]]<br />
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'''Bangiya Sahitya Parishat''' ({{literal translation|Bengal Academy of Literature}}) 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 language|Bengali]] literature, both by translating works in other languages to Bengali and promoting the production of original Bengali literature.<br />
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==History==<br />
The organisation was founded by L. Leotard and Kshetrapal Chakraborty on 23 July 1893. Then it was known as ''The Bengal Academy of Literature''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-06|script-title=bn:সম্পাদক সমীপেষু: ঐতিহ্যের ইতিহাস|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/amp/editorial/letters-to-the-editor/the-128th-birthday-of-the-bengal-literary-council-passed-in-silence-due-to-covid-crisis-1.1186009|access-date=2020-09-26|website=anandabazar.com|language=bn}}</ref> On 29 April 1894, the name of the society itself was changed to ''Bangiya Sahitya Parishat''.<br />
1894 saw the first officers, with [[Romesh Chunder Dutt]] as the first president and [[Rabindranath Tagore]] and [[Nabinchandra Sen]] as vice presidents.<ref name="bp">{{cite book |last=Mozammel |first=Md Muktadir Arif |year=2012 |chapter=Vangiya Sahitya Parishad |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Vangiya_Sahitya_Parishad |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Manipuri Sahitya Parishad]]<br />
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