Words from the Visitors
To Professor Rahman You are doing a very valuable service to your country in the establishment of your archives . The management and care that goes into your collection is most impressive. I wish you and your coll eagues all the success that you deserve.
I have spent a few very valuable hours at Heritage Archives. I wish I had a few more days to read! ... Heritage Archives is not just a repository for me it seems a place of wisdom ... He (Dr. Mahbub) has spent his resources and energies for this great cause of modern times...
... What stroke me most was your Heritage Room here in Rajshahi. You’ve done a great job in collecting all this materials, that are really unique and not to be found in any government archives ...
... having followed the establishments of your brain child ‘Heritage’, it’s growth over the years in size and depth, in spreading of your network ... and contacts and being aware of the plans to give Heritage its own space, I was nonetheless more than pleasantry surprised to see how it has come about ...
...as the regional representative of the IISH South Asia Desk I am delighted that the IISH and Heritage are collaborating in the work of preserving very important documents, which otherwise would have been lost for researchers. Heritage is a real delight for historians (and other social scholars) who now can have seminars (in the beautiful seminar room on the first floor) and for foreign guests who can stay in the guest house upstairs and for all students who can read undisturbed in the reading room upstairs. I hope in future the south Asia Desk of the IISH in Ranchi (India) and Heritage will ... getting projects so that we can start the work of digitalisation of the materials ...