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At Mukul Dey Archives, you will find:
Important Papers
The list above gives only an indication of the type of documents
we have. As we are in the process of making a detailed catalogue,
more groups and subgroups could be made once the complete catalogue
is ready.
Picture Gallery
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a. Tagore Papers (1913-1941)
In this section you will find numerous original and unpublished
letters of Rabindranath and Abanindranath
Tagore to Mukul Dey. These illuminate
certain interesting yet unknown facts behind Rabindranath Tagore's
first ever exhibition in Paris in May, 1930.
Also available is the illustrated catalogue of Rabindranath Tagore's
1932 exhibition of Government Art
School, Calcutta which Mukul Dey sponsored.
Tagore apart, there are letters, original photographs and documents
of Dey's contemporaries —
E. B. Havell, Albert Einstein, Sven Hedin, Muirhead Bone, George
Clausen, Henry Tonks, M. K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Francis Younghusband,
W. W. Pearson, Thomas Sturge-Moore etc.
b. Japan Papers (1915 - 1918)
This section contains documents related to Japan, such as
- Noted lexicographer and British-Indian spy Sarat Chandra Das'
official address at Indo-Japanese Association, Tokyo (1915)
- The entire text of Rabindranath Tagore's two important lectures
in Japan (1916) - "India and Japan" and "The Message
from India to Japan" (photocopied from Osaka Asahi Shimbun
and Mairichi Shimbun, June 1916)
- About 55 letters in original of Mukul Dey from Japan, 1916.
- Photocopies of various "secret" and "very confidential"
reports generated by the British Foreign Office, London; Foreign
& Political Department and Directorate of Criminal Intelligence,
New Delhi & Simla.
These reports throw light on Meiji/Taisho Imperial Japan and her
policies of using Indian revolutionaries to cause political unrest
in India, as recorded from the perspective of India's British
rulers. These documents in facsimile were compiled from various
files in the custody of National Archives, New Delhi, India.
Interestingly, these papers implicate Rabindranath Tagore's connection
with various Japanese imperialists and "transpire" his
connection to San Fransisco Conspiracy Case of 1917 as well.
c. Ajanta & Bagh (1918 - 1920)
Papers related to Mukul Dey's accounts
of these two important Buddhist cave shrines in India, which contain
some of the earliest evidences of the art of painting as it flourished
on the Indian subcontinent.
d. Sigiriya & Sittanavasal (1946)
Documents and images related to Dey's journey to Sigiriya in
Sri Lanka and Sittanavasal in Pudukottai, South India to study and
copy the ancient fresco paintings.
e. Birbhum Terracotta Temples (1946-1952)
This section consists of about 1000 original and unpublished
negatives and numerous photographs of Birbhum-Barddhaman group of
temple clusters. Also present are the original typescript of Dey's
field notes he kept while doing this major photo-documentation work.
Check out a short note on Mukul Dey's Terracotta
Documentation and Mukul Dey's article
on Terracotta Temples written in 1951.
a. Photo Gallery
This is the repository of a large number of old and rare photographs
of
- Early Santiniketan
- Rabindranath Tagore in Japan and the USA (1916)
- Early Bengal School disciples of Abanindranath Tagore
- Mughal and Rajput miniatures
- Photographs of Government Art School, Calcutta during the years
1928-1943.
b. Original Paintings and Graphic Prints
These consist of works by Rabindranath
Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Muirhead Bone, Henry Tonks, Malcolm
Osborne, Mukul Dey, Nandalal Bose, Ramendranath
Chakrabarty, Kampo Arai, Kosetsu Nosu, Manishi
Dey, Gopal Ghosh,
Samar Ghosh, Upendra Maharathi, Suhas Dey and Santanu
Ukil.
c. Early 20th Century Indian Art
Reproductions
This section contains numerous
- Original collotypes (a gelatino-bichromate photo-mechanical
process) by Emery Walker Limited, London
- Original colour lithographs by William Griggs, London
- Early examples of Japanese 'Kokka' woodblock prints
- Chromolithographs, photogravures and sepia platinotypes of traditional
Indian and Bengal School paintings issued by the Indian Society
of Oriental Arts (ISOA) during the early decades of the last century
- Original "Chatterji's Album" issued by Ramananda Chattopadhyay
to popularize the paintings of modern Indian art renaissance printed
by U. Ray & Sons at 100 Gurpar Road, Calcutta.
d. Old Lithographic Prints
These comprise of prints issued from Calcutta Art Studio (estd.
1878 by Annoda Prosad Bagchi), Chorbagan Art Studio, Kanasariapara
Art Studio and Raja Ravi Varma's oleographs.
a. Rare Books Related to Art
The library at Mukul Dey Archives consist of a rich collection
of rare books on Indian art and cultural history. It also has a
sizeable collection of limited edition books on art and photography
as well.
Besides the entire publications of Mukul
Dey, it has numerous titles by:
- Abanindranath Tagore
- Asit Kumar Haldar
- Nandalal Bose
- Christiana J. Herringham
- E. B. Havell
- Laurence Binyon
- Ananda Coomaraswamy
- J. Ph. Vogel
b. Early 20th Century Art Exhibition
and Art Collection Catalogues
A most important collection of early 20th century Indian art
exhibition catalogues and various art collection catalogues are
part of this library.
One such very rare document is Tagore Collection Catalogue.
This was generated out of the entire traditional Indian art collection
of Gagonendranath, Samarendranath and Abanindranath Tagore; and
described by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Nandalal Bose during the first
decade of 20th century.
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