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PD Notebook No.25
Noteboooks of Prosenjit Dasgupta 1957-2020
Travelogue and Field Visits Notebooks, 1973-2022
15-Jun-05
Contains tour notes from Dasgupta’s visits to Satkosia Gorge, Taptapani, Simlipal, Kalimpong-Lava, Tura, Sariska, Shillong, Gomarda, Sultanpur between 1993 and 1995 accompanied by hand-drawn maps, photographs, botanical sketches, lists of bird and animal sightings, notes of books relevant to the tours. Also, contains newspaper abstracts, some press-clippings, a letter of acknowledgment from Gurusaday Museaum, and Gurusaday Dutta Folk Art Society addressed to Prosenjit Dasgupta for donating collection of Dokra arts to the museum dated 6 October 2001.
Animal Behaviour; Taptapani; Bio-history; Mammalian semiochemistry
English
155 pp.
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PD Notebook No.26
Noteboooks of Prosenjit Dasgupta 1957-2021
Travelogue and Field Visits Notebooks, 1973-2023
17-Jun-05
Contains field notes on Dasgupta’s visit to Puri, Konarak, Potasali, Seijusa, Annamalai, Ranganathittu, Polpola river valley and Simplipal, Bishnupur, Nrisingnath, Mahananda wildlife sanctuary, Chilka, Parambikulam tiger reserve, and Sunderbans.
Environment Management; Sustainable Development; Forestry economies; Participatory Forestry
English
147 pp.
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PD Notebook No.27
Noteboooks of Prosenjit Dasgupta 1957-2022
20-Jun-05
The notebook contains tour notes from Dasgupta’s visits to Sundarbans, terracotta temples near Shantiniketan, Kumaon, Chilka, Chandernagore-Hooghly, temples in Tollygunj in Kolkata, Karanjia-Khiching, Hollong-Kalimpong, Dudhwa-Corbett, Sovabazar-Pathuriaghata palaces in Kolkata, Ghaats of Hooghly River, Bowali, Koraput, Haflong, Sikkim, Bhutan, Panihati in Kolkata, Chilka, Chikhaldhara, Kaziranga, Taiwan, Vietnam, United Kingdom, accompanied by hand-drawn maps, details of the vegetation, herbarium samples. sighting of different animals and birds, information of the visited sites, travel intelligence, etc; notes on sighting of Comet Tempel-Tuttle in November 1998; and remarks on various books on environmental issues, ecology, conservation, and Adivasi societies of India, etc.
Tiger Census; Shantiniketan; The economic Value of Biodiversity; North Cachar hills;
English
289 pp.
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PD Notebook No.28
Noteboooks of Prosenjit Dasgupta 1957-2023
Travelogue and Field Visits Notebooks, 1973-2025
Jun-05
Contains trip notes and memoirs of Dasgupta’s visits to Amarkantak, Hollong-Jaldapara, Antpur (Hooghly), Ambika-Kalna, Shillong, Darjeeling, Kenya, Japan, Thailand, China, Corbett National Park, Barnawapara sanctuary, Vanghat, Eaglenest Wildlife sanctuary-Arunachal Pradesh Shekhawati, Kuldiha, Betla, Egypt, Turkey between 2003 and 2007. Also, includes notes on Dasgupta’s visit to the National Museum in Delhi where he saw the Verrier Elwin collection; notes on Dasgupta’s visits to Gurney House in Nainital that used to be the residence of the Jim Corbett and his family. The trip notes include travel details, itineraries, details on the visited sites, information on flora, and fauna, herbarium samples, and bird-feather sample (Kenya trip). Also, contains recipes, compilation of Bengali aphorisms, and jokes from Eastern Bengal, travel listings, itineraries, multiple press clippings in both English and Bengali collected from various newspapers on various subjects.
Diclofenac; Bangkok; Tanzania; Palaentological finds; Wild Mushroom Project
English/Bengali
233 pp.
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PD Notebook No.29
Noteboooks of Prosenjit Dasgupta 1957-2024
Travelogue and Field Visits Notebooks, 1973-2026
29-Jun-05
Contains several trip notes on Dasgupta’s visits to Satkosia Gorge, Kaziranga, Eaglenest, Corbett, Kalimpong, Bhopal and Sanchi, Simplipal, Namdapha, Greece, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Kuldiha, Kalimpong, Vanghat, Labangi, Khajuraho, Nameri-Kaziranga, Gorumara, Jordan, Italy, Sahibganj, Lava accompanied by herbarium samples, insect specimen (butterfly), travel listings, travel brochures, route maps, hand-drawn maps, etc. Also, includes notes on his meeting with Dhokra artist Jaidev Baghel of Kondagam, Chhattisgarh.
Indian philosophy; orchids; Amrita Bazar Patrika; Asiatic Society of Bengal
English, and Bengali
233 pp.
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