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‘A CODE FOR CATALOGUING AND INDEXING BANGLADESHI MUSLIM, HINDU, AND BUDDHIST NAMES ‘

BY Dr. K.M. Saiful Islam,
Professor,
Dept. of Information Science & Library Management
Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
e-mail: ismk99@yahoo.com

CONTENTS
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PREFACE                                                                                                                             iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                                                                                                              viii

ABBREVIATIONS & SYMBOLS                                                                                                 xiv

TRANSLITERATIONS TABLES FOR ARABIC, PERSIAN AND BENGALI               xviii   ALPHABETS

CHAPTER                I                INTRODUCTION                                                                          1

CHAPTER                II              BANGLADESH : ITs LANGUAGE,  PEOPLE AND THE THE 22 DERIVATION OF NAMES

CHAPTER                III            LOCAL NAME PRACTICES                                                         30

CHAPTER                IV           TREATMENT OF ORIGINAL NAMES IN EXISTING CODES    47
AND OTHER WORKS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE TO  BANGLADESHI NAMES

CHAPTER                V           NAMES ELEMENTS, FORMATION OF NAMES, TYPES OF     106
NAMES, AND ORDER IN CATALOGUE HEADINGS
CHAPTER                VI            CATALOGUING RULES                                                               137

CHAPTER                VII          INDEX OF NAMES SHOWING ENTRY ORDER                        148

BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                                                                              441

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