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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.
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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In this section you will find numerous original and unpublished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
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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