Contains notes on Dasgupta’s visits to Betla forests. There are reports of tiger sightings in the notes along with the description of the forest and its wildlife. Important abstracts collected from several magazine/newspapers and academic works of Tim Halliday, S.K. Eltringham, Joy Adamson. K.S. Sankhala on ecology, pollution, energy, and other environmental related issues are there. The notebook also holds a commemorative sticker/bookmark of the Corbett National Park celebrating its golden jubilee.
synfuel; Ecology of One-horned Rhino; Queen of Saaba; Woodland Ecology; Estuarine ecology
Contains several trip notes based on Dasgupta’s visits to several wildlife sanctuaries of Project Tiger, such as Kaladhungi, Dudhwa, Corbett, Pech, Bandipur-Mudumalai, Nagarhole, Kullu, etc. The notes include description of journeys, details of animal sighting including tigers inside the sanctuaries. Summaries of all the tours Dasgupta took in between 1977 and 1988, and a press clipping from Times of India (dated 5 July 1973) about decipherment of the Indus script are also there.
Behavioural ecology; Tiger sightings; Environment management; National Parks
Contains tour notes on Dasgupta’s visits to tiger reserves in Ranthambore, and Dudhwa including important facts on plants accompanied by botanical sketches, and herbarium samples; notes on travel information for various sites and destinations within India, hand -drawn maps, diagrams on various heritage sites of Calcutta including notes on experiences of severe rainfall, and flooding in Calcutta in September 1978. Contains abstracts and notes taken from various newspapers on subjects related to ecology, environment, etc.
Contains trip notes about Dasgupta’s visits to Dalma, Ajanta-Ellora, Sikkim, Kalimpong, Shillong, Yercaud, and Simlipal between 1990-1991 including description of journeys, lists of visited sites, animal sightings, flora, and fauna along with a few herbarium samples; notes on several works on photography, documentary making, and television production. There are several press clippings, and handwritten newspaper abstracts on various subjects including ecology, environment, travels, economy etc. glued on the page; notes and remarks on various works focusing on tiger conservation, tiger behaviour, dated entries of tiger sightings in various reserves in India; lists of various bird species sighted in Seijosa, Assam and Chilka, Odisha in 1996, printed map of Bishnath/
Biswanath District of Assam is kept in the notebook.
Buddhist Architecture; Tiger Pugmark studies; Microbial Ecology; Meghalaya Museum of Entemology
Contains brief trip, and field notes on Dasgupta’s visits in Chitawan in Nepal, Bharatpur, Corbett, Pench, Corbett, Periyar, Kalimpong, Chilka, Sonapahar in West Khasi Hills, Kaziranga, Madanpur-Ganauli, Gir, Sundarbans, Karbi-Anglong between 1992 and 1993 including details of the journeys, reports on animal sightings, details of vegetation, accompanied by hand-drawn maps and botanical drawings. Also, includes newspaper abstracts, scattered notes on several books, and press clippings glued on a few pages.
Wildlife ecology and management; Kashmir; Chilika; Tropical forests of Assam
