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The School of Cultural Texts and Records of Jadavpur University was setup in 2003 with agenda of documenting, processing and studying the textual basis of human society and cultural life.

Activities Include in the school are :-

Editing manuscripts and printed texts, especially those requiring multidisciplinary inputs, in electronic and print form

Preparing databases, bibliographies, concordances, indexes, hand lists, location registers and other reference tools and search engines for cultural and textual studies;

Studying the history of publishing and the printing press, especially in Bengal and in India as a whole;

Recording oral literature, oral history, interviews and other oral material;

Cross-modal or cross-segmental documentation: i.e., gathering material of different categories and genres in relation to a particular date, event or theme;

Collection of ephemera (political and commercial publicity material, job printing work etc.);

Developing the resources for cultural informatics in India by accessing and developing appropriate technology for the above activities: in particular, creating appropriate software;

Publishing the output in printed and digital (including online) form.

Some school Archives
(A) Original Archives

Sudhindranath Datta and Rajeshwari Datta Papers

ShaktiChattopadhyay Papers

JyotirmoyeeDebi and Saibal Gupta Papers

Tapan SinhaPapers

SanjayBhattacharya Notebooks

Dinen GuptaPapers and Music Recordings

VijayaMukhopadhyay and Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay Papers

Ramesh Majumdarpapers

(B) Digital Archives

Buddhadeva BosePapers

Arun KumarSarkar Papers

Badal SircarPapers

Naresh GuhaCorrespondence

Desh Archives

Archive ofEarly Bengali Drama

Address:-
Jadavpur University
188, Raja S. C. Mallick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032

Phone:-
033 2414 6666