Jadavpur University Music Archive

Hi I am interested in having the information about School of Cultural Texts and Records at Jadhavpur University and the details about the Archive of Bengali Literary and Cultural Documents

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The School of Cultural Texts and Records was formally set up in August 2003, and began functioning in January 2004 after distribution of space and supports. It has a broadand open-finished plan of archiving, preparing and considering the literary basis(both verbal and varying media) of human culture and social life in the widestsense. Its affirmed exercises include:

altering original copies and printed writings, particularly those requiring multidisciplinary contributions, in electronic and print frame

planning databases, lists of sources, concordances, lists, hand records, area registers and other reference devices and web crawlers for social and printed examines;

considering the historical backdrop of distributing and the printing press, particularly in Bengal and in India all in all;

recording oral writing, oral history, interviews and other oral material;

cross-modular or cross-segmental documentation: i.e., gathering material of various classes and kinds in connection to a specific date, occasion or topic;

gathering of ephemera (political and business attention material, work printing work and so forth.);

building up the assets for social informatics in India by getting to and creating suitable innovation for the above exercises: specifically, making fitting programming;

distributing the yield in printed and advanced (counting on the web) shape.

The School hasgrowing documents of different sorts of material as point by point on this site. It haswell-outfitted venture rooms with suitable equipment and programming support, aswell as filtering, recording, shooting and anticipating gear. It has alreadygenerated particular programming for cutting edge recording and altering, for thefirst time in any Indic script.

Archive of Bengali Literary and Cultural Documents

The School has afast developing chronicle of compositions and archives identifying with present day Bengaliliterature and culture. We are getting increasingly new commitments, andwould offer to all scholars and social identities, and their families andfriends, to make such material accessible to us. We can secure, protect anddigitize the papers; or, if the benefactors incline toward, keep up an advanced document whilethe unique papers stay with the maker or his/her family.





Contact:

School of Cultural Texts and Records
Rabindra Bhavan, 5th Floor
Energy Studies Building, 1st Floor (Annexe)

Professor Amlan Das Gupta
Joint Director: Dr Abhijit Gupta
Ph: 2457-2953(Office), 2457-2631 (Project Room), 2457-2917 (Annexe)