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EAP127/8
- Record Id:
- 032-000209194
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000209194
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x000058
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP127/8
- Title:
- Gautam Mitra Collection of Popular Market Bengali Books [c 2005]
- Scope & Content:
-
This fonds consists of 44 books digitised as part of the EAP127 project. The books date from c 2005.
The collection covers a broad range of subjects, typical of Popular Market Bengali Books, including: popular literature, such as ghost stories and detective novels; books of devotion and religious rites; film scores and song books; guides for health and wellbeing; folklore; and poetry.
The following publishers are represented in the collection: ajker bhabna prakashan; aloke kumar datta; bholanth pustak bhandar; Book Mark; chaturbhuj pustakalay; Das Publishing; dishari; durga prakashani; Hira Productions; kabindranath sil; lakshmi pustak bhandar; Opera; Orient Library; Rajendra Library; sandhya prakashani; sriguru pustakalay; sriguru trading; tapan pustakalay.
Gautam Mitra owns and holds the original books, which he collected during his travels around Kolkata and the surrounding districts. The books are primarily written in Bengali, although occasional items (in whole or in part) appear in Hindi and English.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Archiving Popular Market Bengali Books
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-000209194", "parent" : "#", "text" : "EAP127/8: Gautam Mitra Collection of Popular Market Bengali Books [c 2005]" },{ "id" : "040-000340972", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/1: lāg bhelkir chaṛā" },{ "id" : "040-000340973", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/2: rabindra sukathā" },{ "id" : "040-000340974", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/3: hānābāṛir kānā bhūt" },{ "id" : "040-000340975", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/4: intārneṭe bhūt" },{ "id" : "040-000340976", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/5: bai pāṛāẏ bhūter tāṇḍabbai pāṛāẏ bhūter tāṇḍab" },{ "id" : "040-000340977", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/6: kompuṭare bhūtkompuṭare bhūt" },{ "id" : "040-000340978", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/7: mahākaraṇe bhūtmahākaraṇe bhūt" },{ "id" : "040-000340979", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/8: deśātmabodhak gān" },{ "id" : "040-000340980", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/9: ādhunik gṛhinīr ṭukiṭāki" },{ "id" : "040-000340981", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/10: bhūter piṭhe bhūtbhūter piṭhe bhūt" },{ "id" : "040-000340982", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/11: deś bideśer prabād biśva prabāde nārī" },{ "id" : "040-000340983", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/12: biuṭi gāiḍ" },{ "id" : "040-000340984", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/13: kī kare niscit sāphalya o ṭenśan mukta jīban lābh karben?" },{ "id" : "040-000340985", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/14: yakhan ḍāktār nei hater kāche" },{ "id" : "040-000340986", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/15: betāl pañcabiṃśatī batriś siṃhāsaner galpa" },{ "id" : "040-000340987", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/16: sacitra prabhās khaṇḍa" },{ "id" : "040-000340988", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/17: kāreṇṭ racanā nirbācita racanāmālā" },{ "id" : "040-000340989", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/18: cāinīj pheṃ śui bāstu saha hastarekhā o ratna bicār" },{ "id" : "040-000340990", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/19: mānush chenār cābikāthi" },{ "id" : "040-000340991", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/20: mane rekhe nambar bāṛāben kibhābe" },{ "id" : "040-000340992", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/21: ājker nārīr biuṭi ṭips" },{ "id" : "040-000340993", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/22: naṛbaṛe bau" },{ "id" : "040-000340994", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/23: bhūter pāllāẏ gopālbhaṛ" },{ "id" : "040-000340995", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/24: śibarātribihit śibpūjā paddhati" },{ "id" : "040-000340997", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/25: romānṭik SMS" },{ "id" : "040-000340998", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/26: biśva paricaẏ" },{ "id" : "040-000340999", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/27: bāromāser meẏeder bratakathā" },{ "id" : "040-000341000", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/28: leṭesṭ citrahār hindī chaẏācahbir gān" },{ "id" : "040-000341001", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/29: kābyakāre hastarekhā darpaṇ" },{ "id" : "040-000341002", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/30: svaẏaṃniyukti 171" },{ "id" : "040-000341003", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/31: svaẏaṃniyukti 198" },{ "id" : "040-000341004", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/32: svaẏaṃniyukti 199" },{ "id" : "040-000341005", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/33: svaẏaṃniyukti 222" },{ "id" : "040-000341006", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/34: svaẏaṃniyukti 223" },{ "id" : "040-000341007", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/35: svaẏaṃniyukti 224" },{ "id" : "040-000341008", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/36: svaẏaṃniyukti 225" },{ "id" : "040-000341009", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/37: svaẏaṃniyukti 209" },{ "id" : "040-000341016", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/38: raṅga rasik bhāidāser chaṛā" },{ "id" : "040-000341017", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/39: amlarog o tār nirāmaẏ" },{ "id" : "040-000341018", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/40: arśarog pratirodh o nirāmaẏ" },{ "id" : "040-000341019", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/41: kane sājāno ebaṃ ālpanā" },{ "id" : "040-000341020", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/42: urdu bāṃlā ṭīcār" },{ "id" : "040-000341021", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/43: hāsir jhalkāni" },{ "id" : "040-000341022", "parent" : "032-000209194", "text" : "EAP127/8/44: natunsūrya svāmī rāmdeb o tār sahaj prāṇāẏām" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209194
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- EAP127/8/1 : lāg bhelkir chaṛā
EAP127/8/2 : rabindra sukathā
EAP127/8/3 : hānābāṛir kānā bhūt
EAP127/8/4 : intārneṭe bhūt
EAP127/8/5 : bai pāṛāẏ bhūter tāṇḍabbai pāṛāẏ bhūter tāṇḍab
EAP127/8/6 : kompuṭare bhūtkompuṭare bhūt
EAP127/8/7 : mahākaraṇe bhūtmahākaraṇe bhūt
EAP127/8/8 : deśātmabodhak gān
EAP127/8/9 : ādhunik gṛhinīr ṭukiṭāki
EAP127/8/10 : bhūter piṭhe bhūtbhūter piṭhe bhūt
EAP127/8/11 : deś bideśer prabād biśva prabāde nārī
EAP127/8/12 : biuṭi gāiḍ
EAP127/8/13 : kī kare niscit sāphalya o ṭenśan mukta jīban lābh karben?
EAP127/8/14 : yakhan ḍāktār nei hater kāche
EAP127/8/15 : betāl pañcabiṃśatī batriś siṃhāsaner galpa
EAP127/8/16 : sacitra prabhās khaṇḍa
EAP127/8/17 : kāreṇṭ racanā nirbācita racanāmālā
EAP127/8/18 : cāinīj pheṃ śui bāstu saha hastarekhā o ratna bicār
EAP127/8/19 : mānush chenār cābikāthi
EAP127/8/20 : mane rekhe nambar bāṛāben kibhābe
EAP127/8/21 : ājker nārīr biuṭi ṭips
EAP127/8/22 : naṛbaṛe bau
EAP127/8/23 : bhūter pāllāẏ gopālbhaṛ
EAP127/8/24 : śibarātribihit śibpūjā paddhati
EAP127/8/25 : romānṭik SMS
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- 032-000209194
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP127/8
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 44 electronic folders comprised of 1,987 TIFF images, 20.1 gigabytes in total
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP127-8
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- Bengali
English
Hindi - Scripts:
- Bengali
Devanagari
Latin - Start Date:
- 2000
- End Date:
- 2010
- Date Range:
- c 2005
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Access is for research purposes only.
- Physical Characteristics:
- Images in this fonds were captured with digital scanning. In some instances the originals were too thick or too tightly bound to be scanned; in these cases digital photography was used to capture the images.
- Custodial History:
- Material in this collection was created as part of the EAP127 Archiving Popular Market Bengali Books project, with the permission of Gautam Mitra.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Received from the EAP127 project (Accession Record EAP127/1, EAP127/2, EAP127/3 and EAP127/4).
- Appraisal:
- Material in this fonds was selected for digitisation by the EAP127 project.
- Information About Copies:
- A set of digital copies is also held by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
- Information About Originals:
- The original material is owned and held by Gautam Mitra; access enquiries should be directed to Gautam Mitra via the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mitra, Gautam, 1956-
- Subjects:
- Bengali (South Asian People) Folklore
Bengali poetry
Detective and mystery stories, Bengali
Film music
Ghost stories, Bengali
Health advice
Hindu literature
Hinduism -- Rituals
Popular literature, Bengali
Songs, Bengali
Songs, Hindi
Theatre, Bengali - Places:
- India, Asia
West Bengal, India - Related Material:
- Further examples of Bengali street books can be found in the collections held by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
