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Prof. Amlan Das Gupta
Prof. Amlan Das Gupta
Founder of the Archive of North Indian Classical Music at School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University.
Amlan Das Gupta was Professor of English, former Head Department of English, Jadavpur University and Ex-Director of School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Prof. Das Gupta is a noted scholar of Classical and Biblical Studies, English Renaissance literature, an authority on Miltonic studies in India having numerous publications to his credit and an expert of Latin and Greek. He is a noted musicologist and expert on the History of Recorded Music in India and of Indian Classical Music.
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Prof. Samantak Das
Prof. Samantak Das
Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Samantak Das is Professor of Comparative Literature, former Head Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University.
He is also currently Director, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC); Honorary Director, Hirendra Nath Datta Foundation; and Joint Co-ordinator, Rabindranath Studies Centre at Jadavpur University.
Prof. Samantak Das was a Joint-Co-ordinator of the British Library Endangered Archives Programme EAP127 project on 'Archiving Popular Market Bengali Books', School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has a long association with FERRY, a non-governmental agency for rural uplift, training and employment in the Birbhum and Burdwan districts of West Bengal. He is also associated with Basudha, a farm in the Bankura District dedicated to the recovery of traditional varieties of rice and other seeds, and the preservation of local tribal culture.
Prof. Das is a noted Darwin scholar, having his doctoral degree in Arts, on the reception and influence of Charles Darwin in late nineteenth-century English writings. He taught at the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan for more than a decade prior to joining Jadavpur University. Prof. Das has written and lectured extensively on 19th-century literature, translation, the relationship between the biological sciences and literature, environment, ecology and primary education. Prof. Das is also a regular columnist in several leading Indian dailies.
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- https://indianexpress.com/profile/author/samantak-das/
- https://www.telegraphindia.com/author/samantak-das/167
- https://www.thehindu.com/profile/author/Samantak-Das-6556/
- https://www.epw.in/author/samantak-das?0=ip_login_no_cache%3Dd85ed5268ca838375d7fdd13a5596db2
Shri Pradip Deb
Shri Pradip Deb
Shri Pradip Deb, is the resident technical expert at the School of Cultural Texts and Records and also an expert of the process of music curation and digitization.
Shri Deb has long experience as a electronics engineer with Philips India and was former Service In-charge at Philips India Ltd. His skills have literally kept the Archive operational for more than a decade. Most of the playback equipment in use at the Archive for music extraction is no longer commercially available, and it is his expertise that the Archive of North Indian Classical Music is dependent on.
Shri Shantanu Majee
Shri Shantanu Majee
Shri Shantanu Majee is a Assistant Professor of English at the Department of English, Techno India University, Kolkata and is currently pursuing his PhD on ‘Intellectual Labour and Victorian Women’ at Department of English, Jadavpur University. He has published on the works of one of Scotland’s most prolific writers in the nineteenth century, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, whose writings comprised the subject of his M.Phil thesis. His interest in archiving and Digital Humanities stems from his association with the Archive of North Indian Classical Music at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, where he has contributed to the digitisation of South Asian Archival Resources.
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Shri Biswadeep Chakraborty
Shri Biswadeep Chakraborty
Shri Biswadeep Chakraborty is currently pursuing his PhD on ‘History of Printing and Printmaking in nineteenth century Calcutta’ at Department of History, Visva Bharati. He has published on Sound archiving and Digital Humanities along with on life and times of Wajid Ali Shah's Lucknow which comprised the subject of his M.A dissertation. He was a UGC Project Fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University and digitized Prodosh Bhattacharya Collection and Begum Shipra Khan Collection along with contributed in a project to digitise and encode in XML-TEI the manuscript of Michael Madhusudan Dutta’s Tilottoma Sambhaba Kabya as a part of the Transcription and Encoding team. He has been a faculty in the P.G Diploma Course on ‘Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics’ at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Shri Chakraborty is currently a Project Assistant for the 'Conservation, Digitization and Metadata Creation of Rare and Endangered Recordings of Indian Classical Music' project of the Archive of North Indian Classical Music at School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, under the RUSA 2.0 programme.
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