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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP921/2 Place Himalayas, Asia

1. EAP921/2

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

2. EAP921/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/2/1
Title:
Printed Books from the Library of Birsingha Vidyasagar Memorial Hall Rural Library
Scope & Content:
Collection of printed books from the library of Birsingha Vidyasagar Memorial Hall Rural Library, Birsingha, Ghatal, Paschim Medinipur. 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 ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1854-c 1910
Extent:
2940 TIFF images

3. EAP921/2/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/2/1/12
Title:
मेघदुतं
Scope & Content:
Meghaduta,(Sanskrit:"Cloud Messenger") lyric love poem in some 115 verses composed by Kalidasa.The Meghduta is the lament of an exiled yaksha who is pining for his beloved on a lonely mountain peak.When,at the beginning of a monsoon,a cloud perches on the peak,he ask it to deliver a message to h...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
85 TIFF images