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Language Hindi Place Bengal, India Digitised Content Platform Endangered Archives Programme

1. EAP261/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP261/1
Title:
Digital archive of early Bengali drama
Scope & Content:
Rare and unique material of, and on, Bengali drama covering the 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection includes texts of formal 'modern' drama, texts of jatra or traditional Bengali folk theatre, books of songs from plays, and secondary material of that period. Nearly all the material ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, Hindi, Oriya, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
112,174 TIFF images

2. EAP880/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1
Title:
Sikkim Palace Archives
Scope & Content:
While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Date Range:
1807-1998
Extent:
89249 TIFF images

3. EAP880/1/5/167

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/5/167
Title:
Installation of Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal (Chogyal r.1914)
Scope & Content:
Documents regarding the arrangements for the installation and expenditures incurred. Original file reference: SPA/PA/SN/003. Extent of original material: 370 pages. This file contains the following 176 items: EAP880/1/5/167/1: Letter from Basil Gould (PO Sikkim) regarding the expenditures for ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Hindi, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
1914-1916
Extent:
375 TIFF images

4. EAP886/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP886/1
Title:
रघुनाथ मन्दिर पुस्तकालय, जम्मू
Scope & Content:
Paper Manuscripts collected under the auspices of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. Arrangement: First catalogued by the famous Colonial Indologist and Sanskritphile Sir Auriel Stein. The Original Collection that Stein got to examine was furthur expanded over the years. After Stein's First Cat...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Hindi and Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century-19th century
Extent:
15543 TIFF images

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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