This File contains two notebooks featuring some essays, and short stories written by Prosenjit Dasgupta. The first notebook contains essays and short stories including ‘Ramna and the Revolution’, ‘The Snake-Charmer’, ‘She’, ‘North Bank’, ‘What a Fal’’ written between 1957 and 1960. The second notebook contains essays and short stories entitled ‘The Third Period’, ‘Glories and Grime’, ‘Of Mind and Men’, ‘The Seed Dormant’, ‘The Slip’, ‘Better Late’, ‘A Book Reread’, ‘The Parting’, ‘To Life, With Love and Squalidity’, ‘An Incidence’. There are also two loose pages containing an untitled essay written in both English and Bengali.
Contains handwritten notes, study-materials, hand-outs, notes on books related to the Indology course offered by Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (Gol Park, Kolkata).
Contains notes on the books by C. Dasgupta, M.K Gandhi, V.S. Agarwala, and on books on various themes related to Indian diplomatic history, political and economic history, forests, wildlife, conservation, ecology, Adivasi communities of India and other themes. In the last few pages of the notebooks there are press clippings collected from unspecified Bengali newspapers, and English newspapers such as from Telegraph, and Times of India attached and glued.
