This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between the editors. We received a grant from the University of Chicago Center in Delhi to continue the valuable work of digitising the archives of the Presidency College, a project that was begun by Swapan Chakravorty. But the Covid-19 pandemic threw many best-laid plans to the winds. Ours was no exception. Long conversations on Zoom prompted us to invite a small group of scholars who were interested in reading parts of archives already assembled or items that inveterate research assistants continued to collect from people’s homes. For example, one copy of the 1968–69 volume of the Presidency College Magazine that survived as the rest were pulped by the government of the day for the radical leftist content of the entries was traced to the personal collection of a professor of history at Jadavpur University. He was a student of the college when it reopened after the height of the Naxalite agitation. The copy he received had been set aside by librarian Prabodh Krishna Biswas, who secretly kept a copy with himself.
We realised very soon that archiving the records of an institution like the Presidency College is a process that never ceases...
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