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Digitization of Heritage Documents in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal: A Prototype Framework

Author(s) Mr Soham Roy, Mr Niren Barman
Country India
Abstract The district of Cooch Behar is a unique entity: a former princely state, which is heavily influenced by its geography, being situated on an international border, and which between 1960 and 1990 generated a fair amount of literature which has never been considered as documentary heritage until today. Little magazines, community newsletters, and small-press newspapers generated during this time frame are the closest thing to a written account of what is going on in this district at that scale of detail which will never be documented officially or by any other publication. This documentation is in critical physical state, dispersed in personal possession and ill-equipped public libraries without proper cataloging and climate control.
This article situates that problem within the wider governance structure that already exists for documentary heritage in India, from the national to the district level, and within the tangible built heritage of Cooch Behar itself, before setting out a prototype digitization framework grounded in the established literature of digital preservation and library science but built around what a district-level institution can realistically afford and manage. Thus, it is not an empirical study but a literature-based argumentative review. It aims to identify what such a program would require in practice, which authorities would be responsible for its various components, and demonstrate that the evidence base to justify its initiation already exists.
Keywords digitization; documentary heritage; local publications; Cooch Behar; preservation; West Bengal; library science.
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-07-31
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