Contain notes on field visits in Bastar and other parts of Central-India. The notebook also contains briefings of forest reports, Verrier Elwin and Wilfrid Grigson’s works on the tribal communities in Central India and Swami Prajnanananda’s work on the history of Indian music. Also, includes a post card from S.N. Panda appreciating Prosenjit Dasgupta for his contribution and fruitful visit to Gumma village in the Ganjam District of Odisha on 23 November 1977.
Ranthambore; Mudumalai; Reddis of Bison Hills; Ungulates; Halbi Grammar
Contains first-hand accounts on Dasgupta’s field-visits to Bastar, Betla and Burdwan between 1975 and 1977 including details on ritualistic, economic, cultural, and religious life of the indigenous communities like Malhar of Dariapur Village, Burdwan engaged in Dokra crafts. Also, contains valuable information on the works of anthropologist and biologists such as Bronisław Malinowski, Desmond Morris, R.F. Ewer, George B. Schaller, Thelma Rowell, and S.P. Shahi; notes on Helmut Gernsheim’s text on photography, and on Bishop Stephen Hislop’s tract ‘Papers relating to the Aboriginal Tribes of the Central Provinces’ (1866).
Primate Ethology; Bastar field notes; The Mountain Gorilla
Contains important abstracts on Saora and Halbi lanuguages taken mainly from district gazetteers of Orissa, interspersed notes on Saora vocabularies, and Halbi grammar written in both Latin and Devanagari scripts, notes on history of central India, notes on Adivasi communities based on works by Sarat Chandra Roy, R.G. Perry, A.F. Fraser, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, Capt. J. Forsyth, Rai Bahadur Hira Lal and others. Also, includes notes on Andreas Feininger’s work on photography, and hand-drawn maps of Kanha National Park and the adjoining sites.
Maria Murder and suicide; The Muria and the Ghotul; The Oraons of Chottanagpur
Contains notes on various subjects, such as: tiger conservation, forests, elephants, animal demographics, ecology, wildlife census, primate ecology, wildlife sanctuaries of India including notes and remarks on the works of several scholars, such as S.R. Choudhury, P.W. Richards, Iain Douglas Hamilton, J.P. Demster, Claude Martin, Madhav Gadgil, P.C. Kotwal, D.G. Lindberg, George Schaller, Aaron Sussman, and others. There are also notes on Prof. P. Leyhausen’s lecture on feline biology delivered in Calcutta on 23 September 1983.
Contains field-notes, travel information, excerpts of the interviews conducted by Prosenjit Dasgupta during his visits in Ganjam and Bastar between 1978 and 1983. Includes first-hand experiences of Ghotul, marital rituals, and other important institutions of the Adivasi communities of Central India. Also, contains notes on forests, and animal sightings during Dasgupta’s trips to Bandhavgarh (1980, 1981), Kaziranga (1982), Gorumara (1983), Saranda (1983), and several useful abstracts of books by A.A. Dunbar, William Baze, A.B. Chaudhuri, John Mackinnon, B.C. Majumdar, Victor Turne on forestry, wildlife, ecology, animal behaviour, languages, religious and cultural lives of the indigenous tribes of Central Indian Highlands.
