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The High Commissioner of India Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty at a function presented a 55-volume work on the History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture that has been brought out by the Centre for Studies in Civilization in India as a gift to the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

The function was held at the Asiatic Society on Tuesday.

The books were handed over to Professor Sirajul Islam, President of the Asiatic Society. General Secretary of the Society Prof Mahfuza Khanam and other academicians, researchers, scholars and Council Members of the Asiatic Society were present at the function.

The 55 volume publication is a part of an inter-disciplinary research project presently being administered by New Delhi-based NGO Centre for Studies in Civilization, under the Chairmanship of Professor DP Chattopadhaya, and is expected to be spread over 100 volumes, said a news release of the Indian High Commission.

The scope of the work includes history of Indian philosophy; various Indian art forms including music, art, architecture, mathematics, science, and aspects of India's international relations, medicine and life sciences in India, Indian women and other issues, it added.

Asiatic Society is one of the two leading institutions in Bangladesh who have been presented with the publication as a gift. Earlier, on June 30 one set of publication was presented to the Central Library of the University of Dhaka. The Asiatic Society also presented some of its recent works to the High Commissioner.