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Archives of Professor Samik Bandyopadhyay
The four hundred files in this collection contain newspaper and periodical clippings; reviews of plays, performances, exhibitions and films; the collector’s own notes from lectures and seminars attended over six decades or more; notes from lectures delivered by him and research projects he has been part of; correspondence with authors, filmmakers, theatre directors, playwrights, painters and scholars whose works Prof. Bandyopadhyay has reviewed, critiqued, introduced or translated, as well as those whom he has interviewed for publication or broadcast/telecast; documents and correspondence related to Bandyopadhyay’s engagements in various official and advisory capacities with governmental and institutional bodies like the central Sangeet...
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West India Committee Archives
ICS Reference M915 Date circa 1769-1924 Creator West India Committee
Scope and Content Includes minutes of meetings of the West India Committee and sub-committees, 1769-1924; minutes of the British and Colonial Anti-Bounty Association, 1887-1890; note books and letter books of Edwin Fitzpatrick, John F. Alleyne, Robert Reece, Thomas D. Hills, William D. Bruce.
Extent 16 reels of microfilm Catalogued to item level. A pdf version is available via record description at: http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/Details/archive/110044876
West India Committee Circular
Official organ of the West India Committee. Published in London fortnightly. Deals with West Indian affairs generally (economic conditions, travel and description), but especially the interests of the West India Committee (sugar trade, shipping, trade statistics, etc.).
Published v. 1-74; 1886?-1958
(continued by Chronicle of the West Indies Committee)
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