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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):: EAP921/4
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):: EAP1104/2
Title:: Private Collection from the Deb Family, Sobhabazar
Scope & Content:: Custodial history: Raja Nabakrishna Deb, the founder of the Shobhabazar family, was closely associated with the administration of Clive and Verelst. His father Ramcharan Deb used to work as an official under the then Bengal ruler, Murshidkuli Khan. He was appointed as a collector and a salt agen...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 28 Apr 1778-30 Jun 1942
Extent:: 230 TIFF images

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1300/4
Title:: Private collection of Mahadeb Hansda
Scope & Content:: Six bound volumes of the periodicals খের্‌ওয়াল আড়াং (Kherwal Arang), সুসৗর ডাহার (Susar Dahar), তেতরে (Tetre) and জিরিহিরি (Jirihiri). Custodial history: Owned by Mahadeb Hansda. Arrangement: The collection has been arranged by Mahadev Hansda chronologically.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, and Santali
Date Range:: 1958-1982
Extent:: 1102

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1300/4/4
Title:: তেতরে
Scope & Content:: This is a compilation of bound journals arranged serially. This file contains 12 volumes of the periodical Tetre, published monthly. • These are the front covers and endpapers of the bound volume. From page 001 to page 004 • This issue contains poems, stories, essays on Dasai dance, traditio...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali, English, and Santali
Date Range:: Sep 1976-Sep 1977
Extent:: 246

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