Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Level: [32] Fonds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP918/7
Title:: Madras Sanskrit College Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of ten collections of books printed in Grantha script digitised by the EAP918 project team in South India. The collection consists of early Grandham books in various subjects such as Vaishnavite literature, Saivite literature, epics, minor literature, Sostra and astrology. The Madr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1878-1924
Extent:: 13908 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP918/8
Title:: Sri Saraswathi Mahal Library Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of ten collections of books printed in Grantha script digitised by the EAP918 project team in South India. The collection consists of early Grandham books in various subjects such as Vaishnavite literature, Saivite literature, epics, minor literature, Sostra and astrology. Sri Sara...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1849-1924
Extent:: 26720 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP918/9
Title:: Adyar Library and Research Centre Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of ten collections of books printed in Grantha script digitised by the EAP918 project team in South India. The collection consists of early Grantha books in various subjects such as hymns, songs, history and astrology. The Adyar Library and Research Centre was founded in 1886 by Co...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1862-1923
Extent:: 26616 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP918/10
Title:: Roja Muthiah Research Library Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of ten collections of books printed in Grantha script digitised by the EAP918 project team in South India. This collection contains Grantha books from various individual collections donated to the library. It contains literature and religious texts in Grantha script. Roja Muthiah R...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1862-1924
Extent:: 67042 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP920/1
Title:: Nyasaland District Books, 1907-1942
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 48 district administration books for regions in the British colonial territory of Nyasaland [Malawi]. The project team initially planned to digitise 182 notebooks identified during an earlier pilot project. However, they only digitised the 48 notebooks in the poorest con...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1907-1942
Extent:: 21074 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/1
Title:: The Library of Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha
Scope & Content:: Custodial history: The Bauddha Dharmankure Sabha (Bengal Buddhist Association) was founded in the year 1892 by the Most Ven’ble Kripasaran Mahasthavir to work for the revival and regeneration of Buddhism in the land of its birth. This association has an eronmous collection of some rare and preci...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, and Hindi
Date Range:: 1908-1977
Extent:: 16933 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/2
Title:: The Library of Birsingha Vidyasagar Memorial Hall Rural Library, Birsingha, Ghatal, Paschim Medinipur
Scope & Content:: Custodial history: Established in the year of 1961 this library is a memorial house of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, a well known educationist and social reformer of British India. Birsingha is the birthplace of Vidyasagar. Many books are found which Vidyasagar used to read and gave a foot note on t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 0495-1989
Extent:: 4455 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/3
Title:: Nihar weekly newspaper, Contai, Medinipur, West Bengal
Scope & Content:: Collection of Nihar weekly newspaper, Contai, Medinipur [Midnapore], West Bengal. Custodial history: Nihar belonged to the Nihar Press established by Madhusudan Jana and at present his grandson Mr. Nitindranath Jana is the sole owner of the newspaper. The newspapers are located in the ancestral...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali
Date Range:: 1902-1989
Extent:: 15116 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/4
Title:: The Library of Rajnarayan Basu Smriti Pathagar, Library Road, Paschim Medinipur
Scope & Content:: Custodial history: With the immense contributions of Henry Vincent Bayley, Raj Narayan Basu and other erudite persons this library was established in 1851 as very first public library of India(as the executive committee of library has claimed for a long times) in Midnapur district of Bengal. Aft...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, Hindi, Oriya, Persian, Sanskrit, and Urdu
Date Range:: 12th century-20th century
Extent:: 12036 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP921/5
Title:: The private collection of Dr. Shyamal Bera at his residence in Andul, Howrah
Scope & Content:: Custodial history: Shyamal Bera, M.A., Ph.D., live in Howrah district of West Bengal, is a private collector of endangered manuscripts, teracotta objects, Pat (Scroll paintings), folk songs and folk dramas etc of Bengal. By profession he is a school teacher(retired). He is founder secretory of K...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, Hindi, Oriya, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1000 BC-20th century
Extent:: 21591 TIFF images

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