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'Nay' Ranganathan:An Inquiry into His Writings Through References to Sanskrit Literature


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1 Government College of Education, Malda, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan. West Bengal, India
     

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Besides being the apostle of Indian librarianship, Ranganathan was a prolific writer as well on virtually all aspects of library and information science. In order to strengthen his convictions, he effectively cited from ancient Sanskrit literature on numerous occasions. While citing from such literature, mostly from his memory, some errors appears to have occurred. This paper attempts to point out some such cases and identifies the probable sources of correct citation

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S-R- Ranganathan, Sanskrit literature, Indian Scriptures, Ranganathan's Writings, Citation style.
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Shyam Sundar Kundu
Government College of Education, Malda, West Bengal, India
Subal Chandra Biswas
Department of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan. West Bengal, India

Abstract


Besides being the apostle of Indian librarianship, Ranganathan was a prolific writer as well on virtually all aspects of library and information science. In order to strengthen his convictions, he effectively cited from ancient Sanskrit literature on numerous occasions. While citing from such literature, mostly from his memory, some errors appears to have occurred. This paper attempts to point out some such cases and identifies the probable sources of correct citation

Keywords


S-R- Ranganathan, Sanskrit literature, Indian Scriptures, Ranganathan's Writings, Citation style.

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