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4.2. SELF APPRAISAL REPORT ON DOCUMENTATION OF CULTURAL TEXTS (SCHOOL OF CULTURAL TEXTS AND RECORDS, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY) 4.2.1 Contributing Faculty Members (PI/direct supervision of research projects) 1. PROFESSOR AMLAN DAS GUPTA, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH Digitization of Cultural Material Digital Music Archiving Electronic Editing 2. DR ABHIJIT GUPTA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH Early Bengali Books Location Register Physical Culture in Bengal 3. SHRI RAJESWAR SINHA, ASST. PROFESSOR OF BENGALI Travel Literature in Bengal Database Advisory Faculty 1. PROFESSOR SUKANTA CHAUDHURI (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY) 2. PROFESSOR SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI (PROFESSOR EMERITA, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY) 3. PROFESSOR SWAPAN CHAKRAVORTY, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH 4. PROFESSOR MOINAK BISWAS, PROFESSOR OF FILM STUDIES 5. PROFESSOR SAMANTAK DAS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 6. DR RIMI B CHATTERJEE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH Project Staff under UPE 2 as on 1 January 2014 1. Sri Subrata Sinha, Research Fellow 2. Dr Spandana Bhowmik, Research Fellow 3. Dr Debapriya Basu, Research Fellow 4. Dr Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri Basu, Project Fellow 5. Ms Purbasha Auddy, Project Fellow 6. Dr Deeptanil Roy, Project Fellow 7. Sri Nikhilesh Bhattacharya, Project Fellow 8. Ms Moumita Haldar, Project Fellow 9. Ms Asmita Chaudhuri, Project Fellow 4.2.2 Relevant Projects in Last 10 years including the Ongoing Projects (MAJOR PROJECTS ONLY) Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in Lakh) DOCUMENTATION OF UGC ‐ UPE 1 SUKANTA CHAUDHURI, 25 + 25 = 50 2003‐ RARE TEXTS AND SWAPAN MAJUMDAR, LAKHS 2008 EDITING AS A SKILL SWAPAN CHAKRAVARTY, ANURADHA CHANDA, SUBHA CHAKRABARTI DASGUPTA ABHIJIT GUPTA, TRIDIB CHAKRAVARTY, AMLAN DAS GUPTA RECOVERY AND BRITISH LIBRARY UK ‐ ANURADHA CHANDA GBP 10,000 2006‐ EDITING OF SYLHET ENDANGERED (APPROX: 2007 NAGRI TEXTS ARCHIVES PROGRAMME RS 7 LAKHS) ARCHIVING POPULAR BRITISH LIBRARY UK ‐ SUKANTA CHAUDHURI GBP 27000 2007‐ MARKET INDIAN BOOKS ENDANGERED (APPROX: 2009 ARCHIVES PROGRAMME RS 21 LAKHS) DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF BRITISH LIBRARY UK ‐ AMLAN DAS GUPTA GBP 26000 2007‐ NORTH INDIAN ENDANGERED (APPROX: 2009 CLASSICAL MUSIC ‐ ARCHIVES RS 20 PHASE 1 PROGRAMME LAKHS) DIGITIZATION OF IGNCA, NEW DELHI SUKANTA CHAUDHURI APPROX 10 2008‐ CULTURAL MATERIAL LAKHS 2010 AND VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES DIGITIZATION OF BRITISH LIBRARY UK ‐ SUKANTA CHAUDHURI GBP 23700 2009‐ BENGALI DRAMA AND ENDANGERED (APPROX: 2011 SONG BOOKS ARCHIVES PROGRAMME RS 19 LAKHS) DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF BRITISH LIBRARY UK ‐ AMLAN DAS GUPTA GBP 43000 2009‐ NORTH INDIAN ENDANGERED (APPROX: 2011 CLASSICAL MUSIC ‐ ARCHIVES PROGRAMME RS 36 PHASE 1 LAKHS) THE COMIC BOOK IN BRITISH COUNCIL, ABHIJIT GUPTA RS 2.85 2010‐ INDIA INDIA LAKHS 2012 BICHITRA PROJECT: MINISTRY OF CULTURE, SUKANTA CHAUDHURI RS 270 2011‐ ONLINE TAGORE GOVERNMENT OF SUBHA CHAKRABARTI LAKHS 2013 VARIORUM INDIA DASGUPTA SAMANTAK DAS DIGITIZATION OF SIR RATAN TATA AMLAN DAS GUPTA RS 42 2012‐ SOUTH ASIAN TRUST, MUMBAI ABHIJIT GUPTA LAKHS 2015 ARTCHIVAL RESOURCES ‐ COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH BRITISH LIBRARY, UK DOCUMENTATION OF UGC ‐ UPE 2 AMLAN DAS GUPTA RS 99 2012‐ CULTURAL TEXTS ABHIJIT GUPTA LAKHS 2014 A. Digitization of RAJESWAR SINHA Cultural Material B. Digital Music Archiving C. Electronic Editing D. Early Bengali Books Location Register E. Travel Literature in Bengal Database F. Physical Culture in Bengal DOCUMENTATION OF MAKAIAS; GOVT OF AMLAN DAS GUPTA RS 6 LAKHS 2013‐ PAPER RECORDS AT INDIA 2014 MAULANA AZAD MUSEUM, KOLKATA DOCUMENTATION OF VICTORIAL MEMORIAL AMLAN DAS GUPTA CURRENTLY 2013‐TO PAPER RECORDS AND HALL; GOVT OF INDIA RS 10 CONTINUE CULTURAL ARTIFACTS LAKHS AT VICTORIA APPROX MEMORIAL HALL, KOLKATA COLLABORATIVE IGNCA; GOVT OF INDIA AMLAN DAS GUPTA CURRENTLY 2014‐ TO PROGRAMES WITH APPROX RS CONTINUE IGNCA, NEW DELHI 5 LAKHS 4.2.3 Relevant Publications in Last 5years Booklength studies only by faculty members involved: 2008‐2009 1. Chakravorty. S and Gupta A., eds. Moveable Type: Book History in India, (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008) ISBN 13: 9788178242170 2. Chakravorty, Swapan. ( ed) Mudraner sanskriti o Bangla boi (second impression, Kolkata: Ababhas, 2009). ISBN 978‐81‐904755‐4‐9 3. Das Gupta, Amlan. Trans. Mosquito and Other Stories by Premendra Mitra (2nd ed. New Delhi: Penguin Modern Classics, 2008) ISBN‐13: 978‐0143032144 4. Chaudhuri, Sukanta. Nagar o Nagarik (Ebong Alap, Kolkata, 2008) 5. Chakravorty, Swapan. Printing and Book Production in Bengal: An Exhibition at the Rabindranath Tagore Centre, 14 February 2009 – 21 February 2009 (Kolkata: School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, 2009). 2009‐2010 1. Chaudhuri, Sukanta. (ed.) Renaissance Themes: Essays Presented to Arun Kumar Das Gupta (London & Kolkata: Anthem, 2009). ISBN‐13:978‐81‐907570‐1‐0 2. Chaudhuri, Sukanta. Ed. (with A. Rudra) Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay, The Final Question, trans. by members of the Department of English, Jadavpur University (2nd ed., New Delhi: Penguin India, 2009) ISBN‐13: 978‐0143067788 2010‐2011 1. Chaudhuri S., The Metaphysics of Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) ISBN‐ 13: 978‐1107412569 2. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose: Supriya Chaudhuri, Aveek Sen, Rosemary Bechler, Anthony Lerman, Henrietta Moore and Stephen Frosh (Calcutta: Seagull Books/ University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN‐13: 978‐1906497347 3. Chaudhuri S. and Bagchi. J, [eds] Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay: Nonfictional Prose Writings in English Translation, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) 4. Chaudhuri, S. (ed.) Renaissance Reborn: In Search of a Historical Paradigm (Delhi: DC Publishers, 2010) ISBN‐13: 978‐8180280382 5. Gupta, A., Associate Editor, Oxford Companion to the Book, eds. Michael Suarez and Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN‐13: 978‐0198606536 2011‐2012 1. Chakravorty S,., and Gupta A., [eds] New Word Order: Essays in Transnational Book History (Delhi: Worldview, 2011) ISBN‐13: 978‐8192065113 2. Chaudhuri S., and Chatterjee R.B., [eds] The Writer’s Feast: Food and the Cultures of Representation (Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2011) ISBN‐13: 978‐8125041955 3. Khan, A., Khansahab Alladiya Khan: My Life Translated with a critical introduction by A. Das Gupta, with U. Bhirdikar, revisedand enlarged second edition, Kolkata, March. 2012. ISBN : 978‐93‐81703‐02‐1 2012‐13 1. Chaudhuri S. and Chaudhuri S, [eds] Petrarch: The Self and The World, (Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press, 2012) ISBN‐13: 978‐8186954911 2. Chaudhuri S., Tadie A., and Mangan J., [eds] Sport, Literature, Society: Cultural Historical Studies, (London: Routledge, 2013) ISBN‐13: 978‐0415825689 3. Gupta A., [ed]The Crazy Tales of Pagla Dashu & Co., (New Delhi: Hachette, 2012). ISBN : 978‐ 81‐8462‐056‐6 4. Chaudhuri S. and Trivedi P., [eds] Playing the Game: Essays on Literature and Sport, (Delhi: Orient Blackswan, forthcoming 2013) 5. Gupta A, Das Gupta A, and Kanoi L., The First Book of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by H. Sargent (1810): facsimile edition, with a trilingual rendition, notes and supplementary essays, (Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press, 2103) ISBN 978‐81‐86954‐92‐8 6. Gupta A., [ed] Essays on HalfTone Photography by Upendrakishore Ray, edited by A Gupta ((Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press, 2014, forthcoming) ISBN 978‐81‐906760‐8‐3 4.2.4 Relevant Patents and Policy Documents in Last 5years 1. A. Das Gupta (member) Report of Technology and Options Committee, Prasar Bharati, Government of India, 2013 2. A. Das Gupta (member) Report of the Expert Committee on Prasar Bharati, submitted to Government of India by Dr Sam Pitroda, Chairperson (2014) 4.2.5 Facilities Available (Major Equipment only): Name of the Equipment Year of Place of Purchased Service Coverage Installatio installation under n 1 Dell Server and Storage 2011 Bichitra Bichitra For Bichitra Project Room, Project, Govt of material only Energy India Studies Building 2 Atiz Book Digitizer 2011 Bichitra Bichitra Services offered Project Room, Project, Govt of to all Energy India collaborating Studies institutes and Building departments 3 Dell Server and Storage 2014 Rabindra UPE‐II For all Bhavan, 5th departments floor participating in CR and SS programme 4 Sound Lab (with facilities 2009 Rabindra British Library Facilities offered for extraction and Bhavan, 5th Endangered to all digitization sound from floor (being Archives Grant collaborating legacy media including reel transferred departments, tape, shellac disc, vinyl from UG institutes, and disc, cassette tape) using Science private collectors appropriate A/D interfaces building) 5 Digital imaging Lab 2009, Rabindra Bichitra Facilities offered (with high quality cameras, 2012 Bhavan, 5th Project, Govt of to all scanners, stands, software) floor (being India; UPE‐II collaborating transferred departments, from UG institutes, and Science private collectors building) b) Approximately 50 Desktop and Laptop computers for day to day work acquired under various programmes. 4.2.6 Ongoing Work under UPE II – 201214 Documentation of Cultural Texts The Documentation of Cultural Texts group of projects is being carried out by the School of Cultural Texts and Records under the UPE‐II scheme. There are six different projects, and their activities during the last one year are reported separately. 1. Title: In Sentence Case A. Digitisation of Cultural Materials The school has acquired and started to process 08 collections since the inception of the UPE‐II Programme. The school is in the process of digitizing and cataloguing the collections, along with the