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1. EAP880/1/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/2/2
Title:
Victor Hope's (Viceroy, India) visit to Sikkim
Scope & Content:
Arrangements for the Viceroy's visit to Sikkim in 1939. Original file reference: SPA/FA/BI/002. Extent of original material: 306 pages. This file contains the following 229 items: EAP880/1/2/2/1: Copy of work proposal, 31 Dec 1938, [3 images]; EAP880/1/2/2/2: List of materials required for uni...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
1938-1940
Extent:
307 TIFF images

2. EAP880/1/5/115

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/5/115
Title:
Prince Tshodag Namgyal's visit to Sikkim
Scope & Content:
Documents related to the travel arrangements and expenses incurred during Prince Tshodag Namgyal's visit to Sikkim. Original file reference: SPA/PA/MS/042. Extent of original material: 142 pages. This file contains the following 85 items: EAP880/1/5/115/1: Tibetan document, 1930-1958, [9 image...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
1930-1958
Extent:
143 TIFF images

3. EAP880/1/5/126

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/5/126
Title:
Construction of the palace guest house in Gangtok
Scope & Content:
Details of the budget estimate and expenditure for the construction of the palace guest house at Elephant Mansion. Original file reference: SPA/PA/MS/053. Extent of original material: 828 pages. This file contains the following 82 items: EAP880/1/5/126/1: Notesheets regarding construction of t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tibetan
Date Range:
3 Apr 1959-22 Jul 1975
Extent:
831 TIFF images

4. EAP880/1/7/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/7/15
Title:
Official correspondence regarding domestic and foreign affairs
Scope & Content:
Collection of the correspondence of Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal (Chogyal r.1914), Basil Gould (PO Sikkim) and various individuals. Original file reference: SPA/CO/OF/015. Extent of original material: 199 pages. This file contains the following 126 items: EAP880/1/7/15/1: Chart explaining the variou...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
16 Jan 1912-23 Oct 1913
Extent:
200 TIFF images

5. EAP880/1/7/42

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/7/42
Title:
Correspondence between Tashi Namgyal (Chogyal r.1914-1963) and Political Officers
Scope & Content:
Collection of correspondence between Tashi Namgyal (Chogyal r.1914-1963), Charles Bell (PO Sikkim) and Frederick Bailey (PO Sikkim). Original file reference: SPA/CO/PS/011. Extent of original material: 215 pages. This file contains the following 102 items: EAP880/1/7/42/1: Statement regarding ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
26 Dec 1919-2 Nov 1941
Extent:
215 TIFF images

6. EAP1034/1/1/25

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1034/1/1/25
Title:
༄༅།།དཔལ་གསང་བ་འདུས་པའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་གྱི་ལས་ཐིག་དང་ཚོན་དགྱེ་བའི་རིམ་པ་དཀྱིལ་མཆོག་ནས་ཕྱུང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: 1r-11r. Physical characteristics: Xylograph, Russian paper: 53,7 x 8,8 inner frame 46,2 x 6,6 cm, black ink, 6 lines per page. Volume and issue number: N/A. Owner(s) of original material: Aginsky Datsan.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
2nd half of the 19th century
Extent:
12 TIFF images

7. EAP1221/1/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1/3
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. An untitled text including "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, and drawings (རི་མོ) of thorma (གཏོར་མ།) which are a kind of sculptural dough offering (མཆོད་པ) to the deities, widely used in chowa tantric rituals.Ex...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
6

8. EAP1221/1/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/3/1
Title:
གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:
An astrological thangka. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting on cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Mounted on to brown cloth. Extent: One thangka. Size and dimensions of original material: 81 cm x 49 cm. The image area ( melong) is 63 x 29 cm. Condition of original material: Good ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
5

9. EAP1221/2/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/2/1/7
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. One page written in Umed script with small hand drawings. one page has four black thumbprints on its edge An amchi (Tibetan medical) text. A response ffrom the medicine Buddha ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
88

10. EAP1221/2/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/2/2/1
Title:
A wedding text in the form of a paper scroll
Scope & Content:
An untitled text. But this is the stone text, an instructional document explaining the eighty stones, an important ritual performed during large traditinal Spiti weddings. (Tib. ཐོ་རབས་བརྒྱད་བཅུ Wylie tho rabs brgyad bcu) The document illustrates how to set up the Tho, the piles of stones, of whi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
10