Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre

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Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre JBMRC has a composite library, archives and display complex which came out of a grant received in 2010 from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

JBMRC is a unit of CSSSC, https://www.cssscal.org/

Announcing the 6th Tarun Chandra Dutt Memorial Lecture by Dr Sudip Kumar Sinha. 11 September 2026, 5 p.m. Topic: Gender...
04/09/2026

Announcing the 6th Tarun Chandra Dutt Memorial Lecture by Dr Sudip Kumar Sinha. 11 September 2026, 5 p.m.

Topic: Gender Gap in India: Issues and Options

Venue: JBMRC. All are welcome.

CSSSC's Research Training Programme's courses for October-November 2026. Auditors welcome.
26/08/2026

CSSSC's Research Training Programme's courses for October-November 2026. Auditors welcome.

Upcoming talk at JBMRC. The Kolkata Partition Museum Trust presents its annual lecture by Professor Annu Jalais. Mark yo...
16/08/2026

Upcoming talk at JBMRC. The Kolkata Partition Museum Trust presents its annual lecture by Professor Annu Jalais. Mark your calendars for 21 August, 5:30 p.m.

JBMRC and CSSSC wish you a very happy Independence Day!
15/08/2026

JBMRC and CSSSC wish you a very happy Independence Day!

CSSSC welcomes you to staff seminar by Dr Trina Nileena Banerjee on 21st May 2026, 3PM at our main campus in Patuli.All ...
16/05/2026

CSSSC welcomes you to staff seminar by Dr Trina Nileena Banerjee on 21st May 2026, 3PM at our main campus in Patuli.

All are welcome.

Title: A Hungry Bengal: Chittaprosad, Nabanna and the Idea of a ‘People’s Art’

Venue: Seminar Room 2, CSSSC Main Campus (Baishnabghata-Patuli)

Abstract: A sense of immediacy and urgency characterises Chittaprosad’s drawings from the famine of 1943-1944 in Bengal. In Hungry Bengal (1943), the printed version of Chittaprosad’s collection of paintings and notes from his November 1943 journeys through Midnapore, we get a sense of an artist running against time to capture what he can of the depth and magnitude of the misery he has witnessed. In this sense, Chittaprosad’s paintings from this era are visual reportage produced in print, an urgent recording of immediate reality, meant for a wide array of readers and spectators, who were kept oblivious of the harsh reality and extent of the ongoing famine by the mainstream media. This essay examines the relationship of Chittaprosad’s Hungry Bengal with the performance of the Indian People’s Theatre Association’s landmark production Nabanna (1944) a year later. I aim to unravel the interface between the visual and the performative in the work of bearing witness, the implications of reporting through art on an ongoing crisis of unprecedented proportions, the aesthetic temporalities it unleashes in contemporary print cultures and in drama, how the ‘people’ are imagined in such a project and what it makes of the artist when the urgency has passed.

CSSSC invites applications to the multidisciplinary Research Training Programme (RTP) 2026-27 (a paid course launched in...
05/05/2026

CSSSC invites applications to the multidisciplinary Research Training Programme (RTP) 2026-27 (a paid course launched in 2024). The programme is aimed at students who are looking to read more in preparation for a PhD, have a general inquisitiveness about debates across the social sciences and humanities, and wish for a firmer grounding in the concepts, theories, and methodologies of different disciplines. Please see below for further details of the programme and application process: https://www.cssscal.org/academic_programmes.php

THE CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTApresentsAI and its EthicsSpeakerNikhil MoroAssociate Professor, A.Q. ...
17/04/2026

THE CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTA
presents

AI and its Ethics

Speaker
Nikhil Moro
Associate Professor, A.Q. Miller School of Media and Communication,
Kansas State University, USA

Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 3PM
Seminar Room 2, CSSSC, Main Campus (Baishnabghata-Patuli)
All are welcome

Excited to host the Kolkata book launch of The Secret Master by Sumana Ramanan at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resourc...
09/03/2026

Excited to host the Kolkata book launch of The Secret Master by Sumana Ramanan at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre!

The programme features an introduction by historian Prachi Deshpande, a presentation by the author and and an interview with vocalist and academic Ranjani Ramachandran.

📍 10 Lake Terrace, Kolkata 700 029
🗓️ Tuesday, March 17 | 5:00 pm

Happening this Thursday at 5 p.m
02/02/2026

Happening this Thursday at 5 p.m

30/01/2026

The CSSSC calendar is now available at the Kolkata Book Fair at discounted rates at the Jadavpur University Press stall and at Khoshra Khata (stall 434).

Collect your copy now!

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10, Lake Terrace
Kolkata
700029

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 11am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 11am - 5:30pm
Thursday 11am - 5:30pm
Friday 11am - 5:30pm

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