Dear Dominik,
two years ago I was invited to Oxford to a one-day meeting discussing this plan, other participants were mainly working on modern history. The collection they had at their use belongs to a Calcutta foundation and seemed to be rather big and many-sided. Literary journals in Bengali, some scholarly journals (JASB), yearly reports of various branches of administration, all mainly from 1900-1950. I have the list somewhere. I found the idea rather good: Although most of those publications probably are in the British Library, it would be very good to have them also in internet, as all of us cannot so easily drop in to BL. We emphasized that the material should be in a form that it can be easily and quickly used. But I haven't heard of its later development.
Best,
Klaus
Klaus Karttunen
Professor of South Asian and Indoeuropean Studies
Asian and African Studies, Department of World Cultures
PL 59 (Unioninkatu 38 B)
00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND