Printed Material

PRINT MATERIAL

Print Material

The library concentrates on encyclopaedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, atlases and catalogues of unpublished manuscripts of Indian and Asian origin. Its holdings and expertize are complemented by those of the other divisions of the Centre

   Rare Books

   Personal Collection

   Area Collection

   Series & Catalogue

   Journals

Rare Books

Descriptive Catalogue of the Illustrated Rare Books in the IGNCA

Acquisition of rare books is a special feature of the Library. It has acquired books published in 18th and 19th centuries such as: The Travels of Sir John Charlin (1688); The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of various Nations of the known world together with historical annotations/Bernard Picard (1733-37); The works of Sir William Jones,(1759-1801); Considerations of Indian Affairs/William Botts.(1772); Journal of a route to Nagpore (1790); Narrative of the Compaign in India/Dirom (1793); Oriental Repertory (1793-94);A Journey from Bengal to England through the northern part of India Kashmire, Afghanistan/George Forester (1797);Oriental Memories/James Forbes (1831); A Sketch of the History of the East India Company from its first formation to the passing/Robert Grant, (1813); Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp/Thomas Duer Broughton (1815); Views in the Himalayan Mountains /James Baille Fraser (1820); The History of Jawa/T.S. Raffles (1817); An Account of the fishes found in river Ganges/Francis hamilton (1822); Historical Fragments of the Moghul Empire of the Mora-Hoes and of the English Concerns in Hindustan from the year/Robert Orme (1825); The History of British India/James Mills(1826);

Personal Collections

A Unique feature of the library is the Personal Collection of eminent scholars and artists. Already major Collection have been gifted to the library. These Include:

Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee Collection - Suniti Kumar Chatterjee (1890-1977) belonged to a generation of intellectuals who gave Indian thought a new direction. A multidisciplinary scholar, philologist and connoisseur of art, Chatterjee was professor of linguistics and languages at the University of Calcutta for thirty years.

Dr. Thakur Jaideva Singh Collection - Thakur Jaideva Singh (1893-1986) was a versatile genius and a rare combination of a philosopher, Sanskritist and musicologist and leading expert on Kashmir Saivaism.

Krishna Kriplani Collection - Krishna Kriplani was a close associate of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore and later secretary to Maulana Azad.

Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Collection - Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (1907-1979) was a man off phenomenal reading and an encyclopaedic mind. He was a doyen among teachers and a well-known Hindi scholar.

Heeramaneck Collection - The rich collection of Nasi Heeramaneck, comprising about 2,500 books, was donated by his wife Alice Heeramanech. The collection contains several books on Asian arts. The rich collection of Nasi Heeramaneck, comprising about 2,500 books, was donated by his wife Alice Heeramanech. The collection contains several books on Asian arts. The rich collection of Nasi Heeramaneck, comprising about 2,500 books, was donated by his wife Alice Heeramanech. The collection contains several books on Asian arts.

Lance Dane Collection - A significant contribution of about 5,000 rare books, covering Indian art and architecture, has been made by this renowned photographer.

Chaturvedi Dwarka Prasad Collection - More than 12,000 books and 2,500 periodicals from the library of Chaturvedi Dwarka Prasad Sharma have been acquired through his grandson Shail Nath Chaturvedi. The illustrious scholar was an authority on modern Indian history.

Area Collections

Research and exchange programmes with South-East Asia, East Asia and Eurasia have brought in cultural material and acquisitions, covering a wide range of disciplines, enriching the core collections on the region.

Series & Catalogue

The library is concentrating on building a complete corpus of printed material on Catalogue of manuscripts of indic and Asian origin published in all parts of the world. So for besides the Catalogues Catalogrum, it has acquired catalogues of major Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic manuscripts from libraries/research institutions of India, UK, USA, FRG, GDR, France, Italy and Japan.The series acquisition programme includes the LD series; Ecolede France; Institute of Indian Studies, Pondicherry Series; K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna; Satapitaka series, Bibliotheca Indica, Chowkhambha Series; Gaekwad Oriental Series, Barodal ; Pali Text Society Series; Rajasthan Puratana Granthmala; Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishvavidyalaya Granthmala; Sri Ananthacharya Indological Research Institute Series; Woolner Indological Series, and many others.

Journals

The library subscribes to over 400 journals relating to arts. It is also building a serial collection of back volumes of periodicals. Among the journals obtained are Central Asian Survey, Asian Theatre Journal, Asian Music, Dance Chronicle,Australian Aboriginal Studies, SPAFA Journal, South East Asian Review, Russian Studies in History, Journal of the Oriental Institute, Praehistorische Zietschouft, MankindQuarterly, Journal of American Oriental Sociology, Journal of Ritual Studies, Leonardo, Visual Computer, Visual Anthropology, Journal of the History of Ideas, Revive de L'Art,Artibus Asiae, and Journal of American Oriental Society.

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