University of Calcutta

The purpose of this study was to explore the trends of publication patterns in Library and Information Science research using bibliometric review. The areas of the Bibliometrics review are contributions of current research, use of citations, length of articles, use of illustrations, authorship patterns, geographical and chronological distribution of contributions, etc. Two national journals were selected as source journals, i.e. IASLlC Bulletin and Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS). A structured schedule had been prepared to record data through content analysis of the articles published during the years 2010-2014. All issues of the journals have been collected and examined methodically. The remit of the study can help the stakeholders in this field to understand the patterns of current research.

Government College of Arts and Crafts is the oldest Art-Institute in India and had played a vital part in many modern art movements in South Asia. Sadly, this century old art-institute recently completed its sesquicentennial anniversary without the attention it deserved – the reason lays with its current decline. The present text will attempt an intimate discussion on the current degradation of this great art-institute and also endeavor to find some possible solutions.

The teaching of Anthropology at the universities as a holistic study of humankind began in Europe and America in the later part of nineteenth century. In India the first department of anthropology was established at the University of Calcutta in 1921. Anthropology was introduced in the University in 1918 as a part of the curriculum of Ancient history and culture. In 1920, it was given the status of an autonomous subject for study at the post-graduate level leading to M.A. /M.Sc. degree. Thereafter, a separate department of Anthropology was established in 1921. The teaching of Anthropology at Calcutta University has completed hundred years with the beginning of the year 2018.  What is most significant about the department is that despite its long career it lacks a documented book on the history of the department.It is really a matter of shame that a hundred year old academic department which is devoted to the study of the biological and cultural evolution of human beings for millions of years could not write its own history! One may only wonder how this department will commemorate its hundred years of teaching without recollecting its own past. How the contemporary generation of students and teachers of this heritage department will pay homage to the pioneers without a factual and interpretive evaluation of the contributions of the latter?
It is an irony that sitting at the oldest department of Anthropology at Calcutta University the students and teachers of this heritage institute may not be able to read and appreciate the classic contributions of the founders like T.C.Das and B.S.Guha and many others while celebrating their hundred years of teaching and research. Still there is time for the University at least to reprint the book on Bengal Famine by T.C.Das with a foreword by Amartya Sen.

There has been a global shift from traditionally manufacturing based economies to economies that are largely knowledge based today. This shift has put forth a pressing need to develop a platform capable of transporting different forms of information to all the members of the society. In this new era of knowledge, India, our great nation which is a vast pool of knowledge workers is competing in the global economic playfield. A large share of our national income comes from agriculture and that is why, India is still known as an agrarian economy. Indian agriculture is now in a post-green revolution era and a larger pie of developmental efforts is being constructed particularly for those who are in the rural areas. Developing the capacity of agro-based rural communities through cyber extension with the use of ICT will create opportunities of growth and prosperity and give a chance to Indian Agricultural markets for creating a more efficient information and knowledge network. This paper showcases the utilization of ICT for building capacities of agricultural markets through cyber extension.

PK Roy was a protege and lifelong friend of Satyendra Nath Bose. He did his PhD in particle physics under Abdus Salam, the future Nobel laureate, at Imperial College in London from 1957 to 2959. He was also a brilliant Marxist, but one who followed the Trotskyist rather than the dominant Stalinist line. He was slowly and painfully handicapped by a degenerative disease and died at age 50 from the effects of the misguided cure. This article traces his work in physics against the broader background of the university, the city, and the Bengali culture he so loved. This article originated as a short contribution to "CU Physics 100," a book of retrospective essays that Calcutta University published in early 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of physics at the university.

Panchanan Mitra was the first professor of Anthropology in India at Calcutta University.His name is now almost forgotten in the Indian Anthropological circles.He did his Ph.D from Yale University, USA in 1930 under the supervision of Clark Wissler.Mitra wrote a book on the history of American Anthropology in 1930.

This is a significant book published by the University of Calcutta under the auspices of the Department of Anthropology during its golden period. The book was the result of two UNESCO conferences held in Calcutta and it dealt with the various dimensions of changes in traditional culture under the impact of modernisation and industrialisation. The academic luminaries as well as junior researchers of the day from a variety of disciplines presented papers and participated in the conferences.The Department of Anthropology was chosen by the UNESCO and the then Vice-Chancellor of CU since the department had done researches on the topic. I have divided the two conference proceedings under Part I and Part II respectively and uploaded them in Academia.edu for its wider circulation among the scholars,students and researchers for the purpose of teaching and research.

At the turning point of the 19th and 20th centuries, higher education was the subject of many talks and debates in British India as in French Indochina, involving different European and Native actors. Whether the British have been favourable towards the foundation of universities as soon as 1857, with the Presidency Colleges in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, the French government in Indochina expressed reluctance as to higher education at the end of the 19th Century, stressing on a technical and professional education, “useful” for the colony.
However, the difference between these two approaches can be argued: indeed, the official report Technical Education in India (1886-1904) underlines that Presidency Colleges were teaching a technical education, including medicine and engineering. In Indochina, the entanglement between higher and technical education can be seen through the foundation of the École de médecine in Hanoi in 1902. It aimed to train auxiliary “native” doctors. Here, different denominations and schemes seem to hide common points between French and British policies, even though slight differences have existed, concerning Law studies for instance, promoted in British India but repressed in Indochina.
These examples show the will of improvement and modernisation of the colonial lands, added to the “civilizing mission” and to geopolitical stakes linked to a “higher education imperialism”.
This paper will use materials from France (Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer and Foreign Office Archives) and Great Britain (India Office Records from the British Library) in order to study and compare the higher education paradigms and policies in Indochina and India. It aims to demonstrate their common points, their reciprocal influences but also their limits.