4.2. SELF APPRAISAL REPORT ON DOCUMENTATION OF CULTURAL TEXTS (SCHOOL OF CULTURAL TEXTS AND RECORDS, )

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

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 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 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 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, 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 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: , 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, , 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 basic care and management required for the preservation of the original documents. Suchitra Mitra Collection The collection contains manuscripts, typescripts, offprints, sketchbooks and other miscellaneous paper items. A total of 9000 pages (approx.) have been digitized so far. Buddhadeva Bose Collection The collection contains letters to Buddhadev Basu from various dignitaries like Amiya Chakraborty, Sudhindranath Datta, Henry Miller and others. The collection was received from his daughter, Damayanti Basu Singh. 700 such letters have been digitized so far, amounting to a total of 1500 images (approx.). Ashoka Gupta Collection The Ashoka Gupta Collection contains personal and official letters, official documents on the Jamnalal Bajaj Award and the Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust, Ashoka Gupta’s memoirs on refugee camps, and notes and papers on the riot in Noakhali. The collection was received from her daughter‐in‐law Narayani Gupta. Approximately 2312 pages have been digitized so far. Sankho Chaudhuri Collection The collection was received from his daughter Subha Chaudhuri. The collection contains published and unpublished articles written by Sankho Chaudhuri, private correspondence, official correspondence, drawings and other artworks, reports of various organisations such as the Lalit Kala Akademi and the Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, newspaper reports and articles, both by and on Sankho Chaudhuri. Cataloguing and digitization of the collection stands complete, with 4,444 photographs of 1,186 items. Snehanshu Kanta Acharya Collection The collection was received from his daughter Bijoya Chaudhuri. It consists of 80 photographs of Snehanshu Kanta Acharya, his acquaintances, and his family. Andre Laszlo Collection Mr. Andre Laszlo donated 6 books authored by his father Andras Laszlo, who was an eminent novelist.

Katharina Moss collection 1 album of photographs and news clips, 3 records and 5 cassettes, relating to the Anglo Indian Community of Kolkata B. Digital Music Archive A total of 300 audio cassettes (approx.), with 400 hours of music (approx.) were digitized within the period. A brief description of the progress is provided below. James Stevenson Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 200 Duration of digitised audio – 250 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of vocal music by Sharafat Hussain Khan, Yunus Hussain Khan and Vilayat Hussain Khan. There are also recordings of Siddheshwari Devi and Rasoolan Bai, and in instrumental music, recordings of Hariprasad Chaurasia. Adhip Choudhury Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 21 Duration of digitised audio – 30 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of instrumental music by . Atanu Sen Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 12 Duration of digitised audio – 11 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of vocal music by Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, , Amita Thakur, Nilima Sen, and Suchitra Mitra,and instrumental music by and Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Mihir Purakayastha Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 57 Duration of digitised audio – 64 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of AIR broadcasts of North Indian Classical Music and Bengali songs. Saptarshi Hazra Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 20 Duration of digitised audio – 25 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of Mushtaq Ali Khan and Netai Basu. Archan De Collection 10 hours of audio recordings of the eminent Hindustani Classical Vocalist Ms. Uma De was digitized. Hemango Biswas Collection Approximately 125 phonodiscs and 75 audiocasssettes from the collection of Late Hemango Biswas, eminent musician, musicologist and political activist were deposited to the school archives by his family and the digitization and cataloguing is in progress. Three notebooks containing songs collected by Sri Biswas were also digitized. Kali Dasgupta Collection 18 notebooks and 65 audiocassettes were deposited by the family of Late Kali Dasgupta, an eminent musician, musicologist Soma Marik Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 29 Duration of digitised audio – 40 hours Audio recordings of interviews with First Generation Communist Women were deposited Bandish Transliteration as teaching aid An attempt was made at creating a set of teaching aids, by transliterating bandishes from V. N. Bhatkhande’s Kramik Pustak Malika, with a new transliteration scheme for Romanising the Nagari script, and embedding music samples from the archive within the transliterated text.

C. Electronic Editing The School coordinated and cooperated with the developer‐programmers Arunashish Acharya (Lecturer, School of Education Technology, Jadavpur University) and Sunanda Basu from SCTR’s end, towards development of a new collation software. The School now has a stable 1.0.0.0 version release of the ‘Prabhed’ collation pack, which includes the gross collation software ‘Chhatrobhango’, fine collation tool ‘Tafat’ and a tri‐tier result‐display system. Version 1.0.0.0 is available in both 32bit and 64bit. Further development of the programme is ongoing and a stable version 1.1 is expected shortly. Apart from that, the School has also provided support for electronic transcription of several Bengali and English manuscripts of Rabindranath Tagore, website management, various assorted tasks (such as working on a now‐public bibliography and master‐list of Tagore's works, electronic collation etc.), besides the overall management of the project. A new work on ’s Calaccittacancari is in progress. This will collate the different variations of the text already available.

D. Early Bengali Books The focus for this phase of the project is on books published in Bengal between 1868 (a year after the Press and Registration of Books Act) and 1914 (the beginning of World War I). Bibliographical record and title page transcript of relevant books have been collected from 11 libraries, including the National Library, , Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, the Serampore College, Uttarpara Jaykrishna Library and the British Library. The collected data is now being digitised. A list of Bengali books published in Bengal from the Appendix to the Calcutta Gazette (1868) housed in the British Library in London has also been compiled. The programme has collaborated with the Jadavpur University Press for the translation of Book I of Virgil's Aeneid from Latin to English as part of a book consisting of Henry Sargent's early Bengali translation of the same work from Latin to Bengali. The English translation was done by Professor Amlan Das Gupta and Shri Lav Kanoi. The School has collaborated with the Jadavpur University Press over an edition of Essays on Half‐ Tone Photography by Upendrakishore Ray from rare material originally published in Penrose's Pictorial Journal, London, between 1897 and 1912. A documentary weblog on the South Asian Print Resources was created in collaboration with the Digitisation of South Asian Archival Resources, SCTRJU‐SRTT project. The blog can be accessed online at http://granthsouthasia.wordpress.com/author/granthsouthasia/. E. Physical Culture Database This new project has identified places, people, and organisations across Bengal that are keeping alive traditional forms of physical activity, such as Indian‐style wrestling, the martial dance form of Raibeshe and lathi‐khela or stick‐wielding games. Field work has been conducted and practitioners of these forms have been interviewed. F. Travel Literature A descriptive catalogue with a location register of approximately 2500 relevant items was created. Events

Seminars, Workshops and Lectures

“Owning and Using: Circuits of Knowledge in North Indian Classical Music”

A Two‐Day Research Symposium was organized under the Music Archiving Project, in collaboration with the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, and The Media Lab, Jadavpur University, on 15th and 16th January 2013.

The list of speakers included Adrian McNeil (Macquarie University, Sydney), Anindya Banerjee (Sarod exponent, Kolkata), Abhijit Banerjee (Tabla exponent, Kolkata), Lakshmi Subramanian (CSSS,Kolkata), Moinak Biswas (The Media Lab, JU), Masakazu Tamori, (Tokyo University), Sugata Marjit (Khayal Exponent; CSSS, Kolkata), Jon Barlow (Independent Researcher Katherine Schofield (King's College, London), Partho Datta (Zakir Husain College, Delhi), Urmila Bhirdikar (Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar), Amlan Das Gupta (SCTR‐JU) and Subrata Sinha (SCTR‐JU).

A Jugalbandi Sarod recital by Anindya Banerjee and Adrian McNeil with Abhijit Banerjee on Tabla was also organized in this occasion.

Archiving Paper Documents: Handling and Care

A day‐long workshop was organized on March 30, 2013. The resource persons and panelists included Anup Matilal, Director, Indian Museum; Malabika Ghosh, National Library; Uma Majumdar, Librarian, Rajabhavan; U Ramesh, Archivist and Curator, SBI; Dr. Abhijit Gupta, SCTR‐JU; Rajib Kundu, SCTR‐JU and Aritra Chakrabartu, SYLFF‐JU.

Image & Audiovisual Archives

A Special lecture session was organised on 23 August 2013. The speakers were Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies and Dr. John Falconer, British Library, UK. The session was chaired by Prof. Swapan Chakraborty, Professor of English and Former Director General, National Library, Kolkata.

Script Identity Region: A Study in Sylhet Nagri

A seminar was organized in collaboration with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies on the occasion of the release of the book, which came out of a series of research projects started during the UPE phase I. The speakers included Prof. Sukanta Chaudhuri, Prof. Swapan Chakraborty, Prof. Anuradha Chanda and Prof. Sriradha Datta among others.

Special Lectures Two lectures by Professor Aniket Jaaware, Department of English, Pune University were organised on 5th and 6th December, 2013. The topics were

The Humanities and Technicity in Time of Technologies and

Touch: A Brief History

Exhibition of Audio Visual Archives

The School participated at the Indira Gandhi National centre for the Arts, New Delhi, from October 23 – November 15, 2013, in collaboration with , Prasar Bharati, Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies, Rupayan Sansthan, Archive of Indian Music, Naadsaagar and IGNCA held at IGNCA, New Delhi.

Symposium on preserving and maintaining the archives, Oct 28 at IGNCA, Delhi

Listening Sessions The School has regularly organized listening sessions, featuring selections from its archival holdings. Some of the sessions were on • Remembering Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, on April 17 2013 • An Evening of Thumri, on 16 May 2013 • Remembering Pt. Yashwantbua Joshi, on 27 June 2013 • Remembering Ustad Sharafat Hussain Khan, on 15 July 2013 • Remembering Smt Rasoolan Bai, 13 December, 2013

4.2.7 Work plan during 2014­17

• PRESERVATION OF TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH ARCHIVE BUILDING AND DIGITIZATION PROGRAMMES

• CONSOLIDATING STRENGTHS IN BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BOOK HISTORY

• CREATION OF DIGITAL TOOLS FOR PROCESSING INDIC LANGUAGE CULTURAL MATERIAL

• DEVELOPING MODULES AND COURSEWARE IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL INFORMATICS IN THE SOUTH ASIAN CONTEXT

• RESEARCH IN AUDIO AND AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL MATERIAL TO DEVELOP BETTER SEARCH TOOLS.