Abhijit Bhattacharya Email & Phone Number

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Coordinating following projects presently running at the CSSSC as Project Director of the following projects:2013 - 2012: Principal Investigator of Endangered Archives Programme funded project: Shantipur and its neighbourhood: Text and images of early modern Bengal in public and private collections"2010 - 2012: Principal Investigator of Endangered Archive Programme: "Rescuing text: retrieval and documentation of printed books and periodicals published prior to 1950 from public institutions in Eastern India," sponsored by the ARCADIA - British Library as a Major Research Project. This grant followed a pilot research project on the same topic. (Received word on 28 May 2010 that the grant would be awarded subject to minor technical revisions) Current status: completed2009 - 2011: Principal Investigator of Endangered Archive Programme of the ARCADIA - British Library supported major research and documentation project "Retrieval of two major newspapers: Amrita Bazar Patrika and Jugantar Patrika". The project aimed to digitally retrieve these publications important for the history of Indian nationalism from a colonial perspective, and society and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These newspapers are not available in any international collections. Current status: completed2009 - 2010: Principal Investigator of Endangered Archive Programme of the ARCADIA - British Library supported Pilot Project: "Rescuing text: retrieval and documentation of printed books and periodicals published prior to 1950 from public institutions in Eastern India." In the course of this project, 27,000 unique Bengali and Assamese language titles, not previously retrieved by any archive, were identified. The books are scheduled for digitization from their holding institutions in four phases. Current status: completed

Engaged in open access initiative. Working towards providing unrestricted online access to CSSSC archive in collaboration with University of Heidelberg. Engaged in creation of a shared database of archival resources available in India as a Tata Welfare Trust funded project housed at the Centre for Studies in Culture and Society, Bangalore http://publicarchives.org.Principal Investigator of Endangered Archive Programme of the ARCADIA - British Library supported major research and documentation project "Retrieval of two major newspapers; bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/2009/bhattacharya.html.Project coordinator of EAP - British Library pilot project "Rescuing text: retrieval and documentation of printed books and periodicals published prior to 1950 from public institutions; Joint coordinator of the SEPHIS supported project on "Remembering the native past: An oral history archive of partition victims in the districts of West Bengal and present Bangladesh," Country coordinator of a major project to prepare a central database of bibliographical records published from South Asia from 1556 to 1959. http://dsal.uchicago.edu/csal/surveys/eastern-south-asia-survey.rtf Advertisement and Commercial Art in Bangla Language from 1800 - 1950. Collaborated with Professor Gautam Bhadra, Principal Investigator, in project on documentation begun in 2000, and Supported by the India Foundation of the Arts, Bangalore, and continued by the SEPHIS, Netherlands. This project, the first of its kind and now in its last phase, has resulted in an archive of about 10,000 visual images of commercial art and about 8,000 pages of printed Bangla Advertisements. On completion of the

Heading the Urban History Documentation Archives of the CSSSC

Calcutta

for the Archive Project at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta with short term multiple appointments

Centre For Studies In Social Sciences, Calcutta

Kolkata Area, India

Ma, Comparative Literature

Done MA in Comparative Literature - 1993

Ma, Comparative Literature