Life in India; or, The English at Calcutta.

Mode of access: Internet.

Second Memoir respecting the Unitarian mission in Bengal, containing a report of the proceedings of the Calcutta Unitarian Committee from its origin in 1821 to the end of 1827 : with an appendix, consisting of the rules of the Committee and of the British and American Associations in co-operation with it, extras of correspondence, lists of subscribers and donors, and a catalogue of the books in the Library.

Mode of access: Internet.

Tales from the Arabic : of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) editions of the Book of the thousand nights and one night not occuring in the other printed texts of the work, now first done into English by John Payne.

Edition limited to five hundred copies.

The poetical works of Reginald Heber, late bishop of Calcutta.

Mode of access: Internet.

Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta

Mode of access: Internet.

The journal of a voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land : comprising a description of that colony during a six months' residence.

Mode of access: Internet.

Calcutta medical journal.

Biological abstracts

The Thackerays in India and some Calcutta graves,

Mode of access: Internet.

Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825: (with notes upon Ceylon) : an account of a journey to Madras and the southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India /

Includes index.

The Indian law reports : Calcutta series.

Mode of access: Internet.

Optical theories based on lectures delivered before the Calcutta University.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Selections from the Calcutta Gazettes of the years 1874 'to 1932, inclusive' showing the political and social condition of the English in India eighty years ago.

Mode of access: Internet.

Gain's in knowledge, attitude and skills of counselors across three trainings programs

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) sponsored by the G20 nations has helped fund the development of training programs for HIV/AIDS counselors in India. To date no study has examined the effectiveness of these training programs. This study, therefore, aimed to examine the impact of a 12 training program in improving the knowledge of new HIV/AIDS counselors in West Bengal and compare benefits of three training programs. Pre and post measures were taken from 87 counsellors attending three training programs organized by the GFATM-7 team of the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta. Overall pre and post training scores of three training programs together show significant improvements in knowledge. The findings from this study provide confidence that the 12 day training program can be effectively implemented among West Bengal HIV/AIDS counsellors.

Topology-Guided Tessellation Of Quadratic Elements

Topology-based methods have been successfully used for the analysis and visualization of piecewise-linear functions defined on triangle meshes. This paper describes a mechanism for extending these methods to piecewise-quadratic functions defined on triangulations of surfaces. Each triangular patch is tessellated into monotone regions, so that existing algorithms for computing topological representations of piecewise-linear functions may be applied directly to the piecewise-quadratic function. In particular, the tessellation is used for computing the Reeb graph, a topological data structure that provides a succinct representation of level sets of the function.

Fictionalising Trauma : The Aesthetics of Marguerite Duras's India Cycle

Marguerite Duras (1914−1996) was one of the most original French writers and film directors, whose cycles are renowned for a transgeneric repetition variation of human suffering in the modern condition. Her fictionalisation of Asian colonialism, the India Cycle (1964−1976), consists of three novels, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964), Le Vice-consul (1966) and L'amour (1971), a theatre play, India Song (1973), and three films, La Femme du Gange (1973), India Song (1974) and Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta desért (1976). Duras’s cultural position as a colon in inter-war ‘Indochina’ was the backdrop for this “théâtre-text-film”, while its creation was provoked by the atrocities of World War II and post-war decolonisation. Fictionalising Trauma analyses the aesthetics of the India Cycle as Duras’s critical working-through of historical trauma. From an emotion-focused cognitive viewpoint, the study sheds light on trauma’s narrativisation using the renewed concept of traumatic memory developed by current social neuroscience. Duras is shown to integrate embodied memory and narrative memory into an emotionally progressing fiction. Thus the rhetoric of the India Cycle epitomises a creative symbolisation of the unsayable, which revises the concept of trauma from a semiotic failure into an imaginative metaphorical process. The India Cycle portrays the stagnated situation of a white society in Europe and British India during the thirties. The narratives of three European protagonists and one fictional Cambodian mendicant are organised as analogues mirroring the effects of rejection and loss on both sides of the colonial system. Using trauma as a conceptual prism, the study rearticulates this composition as three roles: those of witnessing writers, rejected survivors and colonial perpetrators. Three problems are analysed in turn by reading the non-verbal markers of the text: the white man as a witness, the subversive trope of the madwoman and the deadlock of the colonists’ destructive passion. The study reveals emotion and fantasy to be crucial elements in critical trauma fiction. Two devices intertwine throughout the cycle: affective images of trauma expressing the horror of life and death, and self-reflexive metafiction distancing the face-value of the melodramatic stories. This strategy dismantles racist and sexist discourses underpinning European life, thus demanding a renewal of cultural memory by an empathic listening to the ‘other’. And as solipsism and madness lead the lives of the white protagonists to tragic ends, the ‘real’ beggar in Calcutta lives in ecological harmony with Nature. This emphasises the failure of colonialism, as the Durasian phantasm ambiguously strives for a deconstruction of the exotic mythical fiction of French ‘Indochina’.