Inception
The book fair was started on a small scale in 1976 by the Kolkata Publishers' and Booksellers' Guild. The book fair was started to meet the growing public demand for books, but a relative lack of bookshops in Even though the country now has several large bookshops like Landmark, Starmark, Crossword Bookstores, and The Oxford Bookstore, beside the book shop district of College Street, the tradition persists and Calcutta Book Fair is growing every year.
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