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Language Bengali Digitised Content Platform Endangered Archives Programme Level [36] Series

1. EAP261/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1/1
Title:
Western-Style Theatre [1860-1943]
Scope & Content:
The series comprises mythological drama, with some overlap with the jatra in content and technique but more reliant on dialogue and psychological play; historical drama; social themes, often with a stress on satire or reform. Besides many plays based on classical Sanskrit works generally, there ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, Hindi, Oriya, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1860-1943
Extent:
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2. EAP261/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1/2
Title:
Jatra [1865-1943]
Scope & Content:
The term ‘jatra’, which basically means a journey, is applied to the traditional indigenous drama of Bengal, which originated about 1,000 years ago and underwent its crucial stages of development 300-400 years ago. The resulting range of jatras is reflected in the contents of the present archiv...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and English
Date Range:
1865-1943
Extent:
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3. EAP261/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1/3
Title:
Manuscripts [1918-1919]
Scope & Content:
It contains 3 volumes of Manuscript song books
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and English
Date Range:
1918-1919
Extent:
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4. EAP261/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1/4
Title:
Record Song-books [1914-1937]
Scope & Content:
The series includes recorded songs. The items in the present collection are of various origin and content: some collect the songs brought out by a single company; others compile songs from various sources, and represent a different motive, whereby print publishers are seeking to exploit the inte...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and English
Date Range:
1914-1937
Extent:
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5. EAP261/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1/5
Title:
Song-books [1868-1943]
Scope & Content:
The series comprises some volumes that are entirely drawn from the theatre, others exist as songs alone. There are compilations drawn from various sources and writers/composers. Some collections are theme-based, collections of love-songs probably directed at the wedding-present market, or contai...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1868-1943
Extent:
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6. EAP261/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1/6
Title:
Journals [1920-1966]
Scope & Content:
The collection of journals falls into three major groups: 1. those devoted to songs and music generally, including theatrical songs and other performative arts like dance; 2. those with substantial treatment of theatre, cinema and music along with some other material (“ Dipali”covered foreign as...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and English
Date Range:
1920-1966
Extent:
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7. EAP261/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1/7
Title:
Biography and Essays [1875-1972]
Scope & Content:
Small group of miscellaneous titles. It includes a two-volume autobiography of Ahindra Chaudhuri, an eminent theatre person, a collection of critical essays, and another book of essays which also includes some songs. Printed books: 3 titles in 4 volumes. Printed in black and white.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1875-1972
Extent:
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8. EAP261/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1/8
Title:
Collected Works [1902-1928]
Scope & Content:
Collected works, or extensive selections, of major dramatists both in the indigenous jatra style and the ‘formal’ Western-style line across the full chronological range, from Jyotirindranath Tagore through Girishchandra Ghosh and Kshirodeprasad Vidyavinode to Sourindramohan Mukhopadhyay. In a ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1902-1928
Extent:
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9. EAP468/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP468/1/3
Title:
Suresh Chandvankar collection of Odeon record label ephemera c 1934-c 1937
Scope & Content:
This series contains: 24 scan images of Odeon Marathi July 1935, 15 scan images of Odeon Marathi June 1937, 25 scan images of Odeon Marathi March 1937, 28 scan images of Odeon Marathi October 1934, 09 scan images of Odeon Marathi October 1935, 26 scan images of Odeon Marathi September 1934 and 38...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu
Date Range:
1934-1937
Extent:
175 Tiff images

10. EAP619/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP619/1/1
Title:
Thak Maps [1848-1850]
Scope & Content:
Thak Maps of Villages of Bangladesh drawn in the mid 19th century. Maps were drawn to demarcate the village boundaries and to record Zamindary ownership of the village.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali
Date Range:
1848-1850
Extent:
2526 TIFF images