Collections

Representative past Projects and Collections

• Anindya Banerjee Collection of Hindustani Classical Music: This collection consists of digitised copies of recordings of Hindustani Classical Music from cassette tapes, and shellac discs collected by Anindya Banerjee, a leading sarod player, music collector and connoisseur of North Indian Classical Music. The nine series within this collection consist of instrumental music played on Sitar, Sarod, Veena, Sarengi, Santoor, Harmonium, Violin, Esraj, Tabla and Pakhawaj; and vocal music including Alap, Dhrupad, Dhammar, Khayal, Thumri, Dadra (and cognate forms), Ghazal and others.

• Arup Sengupta Collection of Hindustani Classical Music: This collection consists of digitised copies of recordings of Hindustani Classical Music from Audio Compact Discs, collected by Arup Sengupta, a music collector and sculptor. The first series consists of recordings of Khayal, Dhrupad, Thumri and Dadra, performed by several artists like: Anant Manohar Joshi; Azmat Hussain Khan; Badi Moti Bai; Bhimsen Joshi; Gajanan Rao Joshi; Mallikarjun Mansur; Rasoolan Bai; Rahmat Khan, Sarfaz Hussain Khan, Siddhesweri Devi, Umashankar Mishra and many others including some unidentified artistes.

• Ashish Bhadra Collection of Hindustani Classical Music: This collection consists of digitised copies of recordings of Hindustani Classical Music, collected by Ashish Bhadra, a collector and connoisseur of North Indian Classical Music. The seven series within this collection consist of instrumental music, played on Sitar, Sarod, Veena, Sarengi, Santoor, Harmonium, Violin, Esraj, Tabla and Pakhawaj; and vocal music, including Alap, Dhrupad, Dhammar, Khayal, Thumri, Dadra (and cognate forms), Ghazal and others.

• Pulin Pal Collection of Hindustani Classical Music: This collection consists of digitised copies of recordings of the legendary sitar player Pulin Pal, of the Gharana Lucknow-Shahjahanpur. Some recordings are of performances for All India Radio, and one was made during a concert organised by the cultural organisation called Chandeshree. The recordings are held on cassette and were collected by Pulin Pal; they are now owned by his Estate.

• Biman Sinha Collection of North Indian Classical Music [1902-1990]: This collection consists of digitised copies of recordings of Imdad Khan, Imrat Khan, Inayat Khan, Shahid Parvez Khan and Vilayat Khan. The music is entirely instrumental, primarily performed on sitar (often with tabla accompaniment) and of the Etawah Gharana. The recordings are held on cassette and were collected by Biman Sinha, a private collector of North Indian Classical Music.

Some completed projects/collections

• Anindya Banerjee Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Amlan Das Gupta Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Archan Dey Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Arup Sengupta Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Ashish Bhadra Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Ashish Roy Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Begum Shipra Khan Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Biman Sinha Collection of North Indian Classical Music [1902-1990]
• Dipankar Sen Collection of Hindustani Classical Music [1902-1990]
• Irfan Md. Khan Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Georges Lindenmeyer Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Jonathan Ray Barlow Collection of Hindustani Music [1902-1990]
• Kashinath Mukherjee Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Kumar Prasad Mukherjee Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Kumar Roy Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Mihir Purakayastha Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Monindralal Sengupta Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Neela Bhagwat Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Pulin Pal Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Purnima Sen Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Rajeev Goenka Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Sanjoy Banerjee Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Sarbari Roy Chowdhury Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Shipra Khan Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Soumen Sen Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Steve Landsberg Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Subrata Sinha Collection of Hindustani Classical Music
• Ulhas Kashalkar Collection of Hindustani Classical Music

Ongoing Collections

• James Stevenson Collection - Digitized so far 792 hours of Hindustani Classical vocal and instrumental music along with generation of respective metadata in two phases between 19th Feb 2013 - 31st Dec 2014 digitized some 237 hours and in second phase between 06th Jan 2015 - 08th Mar 2019 digitized 555 hours. The JSCollection is a storehouse of valuable recordings, available chiefly in audio cassettes, ranging across performers from various traditions such as Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan, Pyara Sahib, C. R. Vyas, Salamat and Nazakat Ali Khan, Ramkrishnabua Vaze, Malini Rajurkar in vocal music as well as Bundu Khan (Sarangi), Lalmani Mishra (Veena), Mian Qadir Baksh (Tabla), D. K. Datar (Violin), Gopal Mishra (Sarangi), Hafiz Ali Khan (Sarod) in instrumental music, among others. The Collection also boasts of rare interviews of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Rasoolan Bai as well as recording of live performances by Barkat Ali Khan, Sharat Chandra Arolkar, etc.

• Prodosh Bhattacharya Collection - Digitized so far some 66 hours of majorly rare recordings of the popular artist Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, available chiefly in 78rpm shellac dics and 45rpm vinyl discs and compact cassettes. The collection also holds audio files by artists like Kanan Devi, Pankaj Mallick, Mubarak Begum etc.