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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Language English Subject Popular literature, Bengali

1. EAP127/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP127/1
Title:
Jadavpur University School of Cultural Texts and Records Collection of Popular Market Bengali Books [c 1870-c 2005]
Scope & Content:
This fonds consists of 1,087 books digitised as part of the EAP127 Archiving popular market Bengali books project. The books are listed within seven sub-fonds, reflecting the arrangement of the original materials held by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University. These divisi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, Hindi, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
c 1870-c 2005
Extent:
1087 electronic folders comprised of 62,801 TIFF images, 574.51 gigabytes in total

2. EAP127/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP127/2
Title:
Radha Prasad Gupta Collection of Adventure Novels [c 1830-c 1940]
Scope & Content:
This fonds consists of 29 books digitised as part of the EAP127 Archiving Popular Market Bengali Books project, funded by the Endangered Archives Programme. The books are all adventure novels dating from the mid 19th to the early 21st Century, and were published by Rahasya-Lahari, Haridas Pal, a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Hindi
Date Range:
c 1830-c 1940
Extent:
29 folders comprised of 4,413 images, 25.9 gigabytes in total

3. EAP127/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP127/6
Title:
Arun Ghosh Collection of Popular Market Bengali Books [c 1870-c 2005]
Scope & Content:
This fonds consists of 71 books digitised as part of the EAP127 project. The original materials date from the late 19th century through to the early 21st century (c 1870-c 2005). Material in this fonds covers a wide range of subjects, typical of Bengali street books: popular literature includi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Hindi
Date Range:
c 1870-c 2005
Extent:
71 electronic folders comprised of 4,626 TIFF images. 41.3 gigabytes in total.

4. EAP127/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP127/8
Title:
Gautam Mitra Collection of Popular Market Bengali Books [c 2005]
Scope & Content:
This fonds consists of 44 books digitised as part of the EAP127 project. The books date from c 2005. The collection covers a broad range of subjects, typical of Popular Market Bengali Books, including: popular literature, such as ghost stories and detective novels; books of devotion and religi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Hindi
Date Range:
c 2005
Extent:
44 electronic folders comprised of 1,987 TIFF images, 20.1 gigabytes in total