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Place Calcutta, West Bengal, India Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. EAP262/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP262/1
Title:
Collection of two rare newspapers presently housed at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta: Amrita Bazar Patrika and Jugantar Patrika. (1870-1980)
Scope & Content:
Two newspapers; Amrita Bazar Patrika started publishing as a Bengali language weekly from Jessore, then transformed to a bi-lingual weekly from 1870 and transferred to Calcutta in the same year. From 1878, following the Vernacular Press (Regulation) Act, the newspaper started publishing as an En...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali and English
Date Range:
1870-1980
Extent:
Two newspapers: 187477 TIFF images

2. WD4540

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4540
Title:
Sketch map of Calcutta and areas to the south. Artist(s): Colebrooke, Robert Hyde (1762-1808)
Scope & Content:
Plan of areas near Calcutta to the south of Kidderpore and Garden Reach. 1780s. Inscribed with 18th Century place names and two lengthy inscriptions describing a survey. Note: Throughout the 1780s Colebrooke conducted surveys in Bengal. The dockyards at Kidderpore were built between 1780 and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1790
Extent:
1 Item

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