Aims and objectives
The Sanskrit Sahitya Parishat (SSP) Kolkata, established in 1916 to promote Indian philosophical and literary-cultural heritage, houses endangered cultural texts and miscellaneous materials. This archive, almost completely forgotten and highly neglected, contains the entire collection of the Sanskrit Sahitya Parishat Patrika (institutional journals from 1925 to 1949), copies of almanacs (published during the 1870s), rare books, written in Bangla, Sanskrit and English on Tantra, Vaishnavism, Navya-Nyaya, Samkhya Darshan, Ayurveda and Sanskrit Grammar (published between 1815-1906), and 19th-century personal account books of domestic expenses, etc. It also includes Library accession records and policy papers from 1922, historic documents that enshrine unexplored records of colonial cultural politics and epistemic debates. Additionally, this project will also digitise Dr. Barun Chattopadhyay's personal collection of rare 19th-century Bengali books of religious heterodoxy, located in rural Birbhum.
