St Agnes Mangalore Papers

Content Description

St Agnes College, Mangalore, was established in 1921 by a congregation of sisters called the Apostolic Carmel. It is reportedly the first women’s college on the west coast of India and the second under private management, in the whole country. It has offered undergraduate education in maths since 1921, and other science degrees since the 1960s. Later, it began admitting boys as well. This accession consists of issues of ‘St Agnes College Magazine’ published at the university from 1954 to 1976. The magazines document prominent events of the year, activities of various departments, as well as articles by the students of the college on topics including science and technology. There are 18 issues of St Agnes College Magazine from this period bound into 5 volumes. From 1930 to 1953 the college had hand-written magazines, however we could not locate these.

Condition Description

The magazines are in decent condition though in most cases they have been bound together into volumes. They are being stored in two bookshelves in the college library and are available for reference by anyone.

Accession Date

2026-01-08

Dispostion

We are only digitising issues of the magazine published from 1954 to 1976 - the first 18 issues of the printed magazine. Issues after this have already been digitised by the college and kept for internal access.

Acquisition Type

Loan

Provenance

St Agnes are the publishers of St Agnes College Magazine and the issues we are digitising have always been with them. The magazines have been digitised once before however, we will need to re-digitise them as the quality of digitisation was not up to required standards, and they have not been made accessible to the public before.

Retention Rule

This accession is relevant to the history of Mangalore, as it documents the events and accomplishments of St Agnes College, which was founded in 1920 as a girls’ college. The institution has provided science education for close to 100 years and this way, the accession (comprising college magazines) fits the scope of PAST as well as the work of Labhopping Science Media Forum. The physical material will remain in St Agnes College for perpetuity. It has been made available to the grantee on loan for the period of project of the grant, but all the material survey and digitisation within the campus itself. The digital copies of the material can be permanently housed at Archives at NCBS. The digital copies with the grantee may be retained and used for research and storytelling purposes.

Language of Description

English

Script of Description

Latin

Restrictions Apply

Yes

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for access unless mentioned in specific folders of the finding aid.

Use Restrictions

Copyright may not have been assigned to Archives at NCBS. Permission for reproduction or distribution must be obtained in writing from the Archives at NCBS (archives@ncbs.res.in). See access guidelines for more information (https://archives.ncbs.res.in/access). The Archives at NCBS makes no representation that it is the copyright owner in all of its collections. The user must obtain all necessary rights and clearances before use of material and material may only be reproduced for academic and non-commercial use.