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Synopsis A catalogue Raisonne of the collection of sculpture of the Varendra Research Museum the richest repertory of Bengal sculptures has been a long felt need. Annual reports of the Museum prior to 1947 show that there had been several attempts to produce such a catalogue but apparently these always came to nothing. We do not know the reasons for these failures. However, since 1964, when the Rajshahi University assumed the responsibility of the management of the Museum, there has been a continuous awareness of this need among scholars and in the University administration and eventually when Professor M.A. Raqib was the Vice-chancellor the syndicate of the University at its meeting held on 28.07.1987 accepted the recommendation of the Museum Committee and decided to publish the catalogue. The work of preparing it was given to the eminent iconographist and art historian Professor Mukhlesur Rahman who had by then retired as the Director of the Varendra Research Museum. But unfortunately, when the catalogue was in its last stage of preparation Professor Rahman died (1993).