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Language Bengali Subject Literature Level [32] Fonds

1. EAP921/1

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

2. 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

3. EAP921/4

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

4. EAP921/5

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

5. EAP921/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/6
Title:
The Collection from Sisir Bani Mandir Pathagar, Guptipara, Hooghly
Scope & Content:
Custodial history: One of the oldest libraries in the Hooghly district. Sisir Bani Mandir was established at Guptipara in 1917. The library has a good collection of old Sanskrit and Bengali manuscripts and some rare books in different languages. Administrative context: The CSSSC, on realising t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1500 BC-20th century
Extent:
18276 TIFF images

6. EAP921/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP921/7
Title:
The Collection the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata
Scope & Content:
Custodial history: Sadharan Brahmo Samaj was established in year of 1878. The Brahmo Samaj literally means the society of the worshippers of the One True God. Brahmo Samaj or religion is an intellectual as well as socio-religious reformation movement started by Raja Ram Mohan Roy as Adi Brahmo S...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and English
Date Range:
1846-1983
Extent:
151653 TIFF images

7. EAP1031/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1031/1
Title:
Akshyay Granthagar Library's Manuscript Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection deals with Sanskrit grammar, Smriti, cantos of the Mahabharata, dramas, the Puranas, Tantric liturgies and rituals, Gaudiya Vaishnava hagiography, theology and rituals, Shaivite liturgies and rituals, Ayurveda medicine, lexicons, aesthetics, and poetry. Taken together, 294 Sanskr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1316-1845
Extent:
20156 tiff images

8. EAP1031/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1031/4
Title:
Dr Rajarshi Ghose Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection belongs to Dr. Rajarshi Ghose (Kolkata, India). It is a private collection with rare books, chapbooks, pamphlets, and periodicals in Urdu, Nepali, Bangla, Sanskrit, Farsi, Hindi, Rajasthani and Bhojpuri. Dr. Rajarshi Ghose is an Assistant Professor in History at the Centre for St...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, Bhojpuri, English, Hindi, Nepali, Persian, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu
Date Range:
1800-1999
Extent:
42852 tiff images

9. EAP1104/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1104/11
Title:
Private Collection of Royal family of Cussimbazar (Roy)
Scope & Content:
Custodial history: Around 1700 AD Ajodhya Ram Roy of Pirojpur village near Bhagabangola and the river Padma (who traced his descent from Patrasayer of Burdwan District) came with his family to settle down in Cossimbazar, a renowned port city of Bengal closed to Murshidabad, the capital of the Na...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Not applicable
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century-1st half of the 20th century
Extent:
2818 TIFF images

10. EAP1247/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1247/1
Title:
Acharya Gopal Khettry Collection
Scope & Content:
The collection is built by Acharya Gopal Khettry, a Hindu religious leader, disciple of famous saint-songwriter Bhaba Pagla. The collection includes manuscripts of songs written and composed by Bhaba Pagla, albums containing correspondence between the Bhaba Pagla and Gopal Khettry. He has also c...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 20th century
Extent:
323 TIFF images