Subject: Politics and Government / Place: Assam, India / Level: [32] Fonds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP922/1
Title:: British Indian Association Archive
Scope & Content:: The British Indian Association, founded in 1851, was one of the earliest political associations of Indian colonial subjects. It was the first political body of the nation and can really challenge Indian National Congress for the title of the Grand Old Party. It was largely composed of landholder...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Bengali and English
Date Range:: 1851-1948
Extent:: 66,876 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1104/9
Title:: Private Collection of Daw Family, Jorasanko
Scope & Content:: Custodial history: A fraction of the Daw family headed by Ramnarayan Daw settled at Jorasanko in Calcutta at the very beginning of the nineteenth century migrating from their ancestral village of Kotulpur of the present district of Bankura, West Bengal. One of his descendants, Narasimha Chandra ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century-20th century
Extent:: 458 TIFF images

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