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Finding aid prepared by Amy Blake
Administrative Information
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from Arthur Franklin Raper papers must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions.
Preferred Citation
Arthur Raper Bangladesh collection, Collection C0095, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Acquisition Information
Collection donated by Arthur Raper in 1977.
Processing Information
Processed by Amy Blake in December 2018. EAD markup completed by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty in August 2009 and was revised by Amy Blake in December 2018.
Biographical Information
Arthur Franklin Raper was a distinguished sociologist whose early work focused on rural social issues and racial discrimination in the South. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, he worked for several government agencies on problems of rural development in Bangladesh as well as other countries in Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. After his work as senior advisor to the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, he returned to the United States and worked as a visiting professor at Michigan State University until his retirement in 1967.
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents pertaining to the work of South Asia development expert Arthur Raper, including speeches, pamphlets in Bengali/Bangla, research and development project reports published by the Pakistan and Bangladesh Academies for Rural Development, Comilla and Peshawar, Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, East-West Center, Hawaii. Many of the documents within this collection have notes written on and within them by Raper and others, allowing for more insight into Raper's presonal involvement and opinions with these projects and surveys.
Arrangement
This collection is organized chronologically.
Related Material
Special Collections and Archives holds other collections related to international development, particularly papers and records from individuals affiliated with the GMU Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Asia
- East-West Center
- Michigan State University. Asian Studies Center
- Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, Comilla
- Pamphlets
- Rural development -- Bangladesh
- Rural development -- Pakistan
- South Asia
Container List
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
"Enlightened Farmers Camp"
November 1959
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
"Family Planning in a Rural Area: A Search for an Approach"
circa 1960s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
"The Ford Foundation-Pakistan Project of Michigan State University and the Pakistan Academies for Village Development"
circa 1960s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Pamphlets in Bengali/Bangla, featuring Maps and Illustrations
circa 1960s-1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
"Annual Evaluation Report"
1960
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
"Village Dhanishwar-three generations of man-land adjustment in an East Pakistan Village"
1960
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
"A Survey of Cottage Industries in Comilla Development Area"
July 16, 1960
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
"Journal of the East Pakistan Academy for Village Development" Vol.1, No.3
August 1960
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
"Journal of the East Pakistan Academy for Village Development" Vol.1, No.4
October 1960
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
"Adoption of Improved Methods of Paddy Cultivation in Comilla Development Area II"
January 4, 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
"Journal of the East Pakistan Academy for Village Development" Vol.1, No.6
February 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
"A Follow-up Survey on Seed Manipulation Scheme"
March 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
"Adoption of Improved Methods of Paddy Cultivation in Comilla Development Area III"
June 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14
"A New Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
July 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15
"Journal of the East Pakistan Academy for Village Development" Vol.2, No.2
July 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16
"A Survey of Attitude of Rural Population toward Family Planning"
August 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
"Voluntary Group Adoption of Power Pump Irrigation"
September 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
"Journal of the East Pakistan Academy for Village Development" Vol.2, No.3
October 1961
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
"Journal of the East Pakistan Academy for Village Development" Vol.2, No.4
January 1962
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
"Pakistan Academy for Rural Development"
June 1962-May 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
"Journal of the Pakistan Academy for Village Development, Comilla" Vol.3, No.1
July 1962
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
"A Rural Public Work Programme: A Preliminary Report" Vol.3, No.1
July 1962
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
"A New Rural Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
July 1962
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8
"Journal of the Pakistan Academy for Village Development" Special Issue
July 1962
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
"Journal of the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, Comilla" Vol.3, No.2
October 1962
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
"Accomplishment of the Works Programme of 1962-1963"
1962-1963
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
"Diffusion and Adoption of Agricultural practices: A Study in a Village in East Pakistan"
1963
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
"Education for Illiterate Adults"
1963
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
"Journal of the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, Comilla"
April 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
"Women's Education and Home Development Programme: First Annual Report"
April 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
"An Interim Report for the Communications Section"
June 30, 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
"A New Rural Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
July 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
"Government of East Pakistan Basic Democracies and Local Government Department"
July 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1
"A New Rural Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
July 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
"An Evaluation of the Rural Public Works Programme East Pakistan, 1962-63"
October 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3
"The Comilla Rural Administration Experiment: History and Annual Report"
October 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
"The Works Program in East Pakistan"
December 1963
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5
"School Works Programme: Comilla Kotwali Thana"
1963-1964
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6
"Journal of the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, Comilla"
January 1964
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7
"The Comilla District Development Project"
May 1964
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8
"Rural Development in East Pakistan Speeches of Akhter Khan"
June 4, 1964
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9
"Pakistan Academy for Rural Development"
June 1964-May 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10
"Journal of the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, Comilla" Vol.5, No.1
July 1964
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11
"Pakistan Academy for Rural Development: Fifth Annual Report"
July 1964
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12
"Fifth Annual Report: June 1963-May 1964"
July 1964
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13
"Journal of the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, Comilla" Vol.5, No.2
October 1964
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
"Journal of the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development Comilla"
January 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
"The Supply of Family Planning Contraceptives to Different Unions of Comilla Kotwali Thana"
March-August 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
"The Comilla Project: An Experiment in Rural Administration"
April 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
"The Pakistan Academies for Rural Development Comilla and Peshwar 1959-1964, a Bibliography"
Spring 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
"A New Rural Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
May 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
"Pakistan Academy for Rural Development: Seventh Annual Report"
June 1965-May 1966
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7
"Comilla Pilot Project in Family Planning: Third Progress Report"
August 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
"Cost and Return: A Study of Irrigated Crops in Comilla Villages"
Ovtober 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9
"Women and Cooperatives"
December 1965
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 10
"Technical Assistance in the in-service Training of Pakistan Civil Servants since 1958"
January 1966
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 11
"Monthly Report: April, 1966"
April 1966
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 12
"A New Rural Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
May 1966
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1
"Production of Aman Rice in Comilla"
June 1966
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2
"Monthly Report: May, 1966"
July 1966
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3
"Changing Patterns of Administration in Rural East Pakistan"
August 1966
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4
"Comilla Co-operative Experiement"
November 1966
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5
"An Evaluation Report on the Progress of the Seven Thana projects under the Comilla District Integrated Rural Development
Programme"
September 1967
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6
"Communication and Publicity Experiement in Comilla"
January 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 7
"The Comilla Family Planning Projcet"
April 1968
Scope and Contents
*Note: The word 'Project' is mispelled in the title*
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 8
"Rural Credit in Gazipur Village"
April 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 9
"Statistical Digest"
May 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 10
"Aus Crop Survery in Comilla Kotwali Thana"
May 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 11
"Tests of Irri Selections"
May 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 12
"Study on Insecticides for Rice"
May 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 13
"Annual Plan for Training and Research 1968-69"
June 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 14
"Pakistan Academy for Rural Development: Ninth Annual Report"
September 1968
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 15
"Community and Agricultural Development in Pakistan"
January 1969
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 16
"A New Rural Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
April 1969
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1
Pamphlet in Bengali/Bangla
circa1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2
"Terror and Brutality in Bangla Desh"
1971
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3
"Tour of Twenty Thanas: Impression of Drainage-Roads"
February 1971
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4
"What Price Pakistan?"
June 13, 1971
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5
"The Case for Bangladesh"
September 1971
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6
"Rural Development Programs for Adaptation from Comilla, Bangladesh"
June 1972
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7
"Prelude to Crisis Bengal and Bengal Studies in 1970"
August 1972
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8
"Capital Accumulation Through Cooperatives"
January 1973
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9
"Three Essays by Akhter Hameed Khan"
May 1973
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10
"A New Rural Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
July 1973
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11
"Comilla Khadar"
November 1973
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12
"Role of Thana Training and Development Centre and Tip Team in Thana Irrigation Programme in Bangladesh"
March 1974
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 13
"Land Holding and Co-operatives in Five Comilla Villages"
May 1974
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 14
"Evaluation of Thana Irrigation Programme, 1971-72"
June 1974
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 15
"Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development: Thirteenth Annual Report"
June 1974
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 16
"Training At Bard"
January 1975
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 17
"A New Rural Co-operative System for Comilla Thana"
March 1975
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 18
Accounts Manual
June 1975
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 19
"Women's Education and Home Development"
June 1975
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 20
"Introductory Notes on Some Locally Initiated Development Projects in Bangladesh"
June 1975
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1
"Integrated Communication: Bringing People and Rural Development together"
February 12, 1976
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2
"Intensive Family Planning Information and Service Delivery Campaign"
March 1976
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Bound Publications on Rural Development and Crop Research
1964-1966
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Bound Publications on Irrigation and Rural Administration Experiments
1963-1964
Mixed Materials Box: 8
Bound Publications on Rural Development and Family Planning
1961-1965