Digitised Content Platform: Endangered Archives Programme / Level: [36] Series - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP256/1/2
Title:: Chieftaincy and Native Affairs [1919-1988]
Scope & Content:: Records in this series are related to native laws and customs; Correspondences on appointments; Disposition and death of chiefs, Immigration, inquiry into riots; Correspondences on slavery; United Nations Trusteeship, and Native Authority policy paper
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1919-1988
Extent:: 14 files consisting of 1300 images.

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:: TIFF Images

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:: TIFF Images

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:: TIFF Images

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:: TIFF Images

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:: TIFF Images

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:: TIFF Images

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:: TIFF Images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP264/1/1
Title:: Art and Culture [1920s-1950s]
Scope & Content:: Images related to art and culture, including theatre, the circus, museums, film making, artwork, printed materials, and folk musical instruments. Most of the images were taken in Ulaanbaatar between 1920s-1950s.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1920s-1950s
Extent:: 8 files containing 1,120 TIFF images

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