Guide to the Gobind Behari Lal papers
Marjorie Bryer
The Bancroft Library
2023
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Gobind Behari Lal papers
Creator:
Lal, Gobind Behari
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 84/77 c
Physical Description:
9 linear feet
(7 cartons, 1 box)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1930-1982.
Language of Material:
English
.
Restrictions on Access
Collection open for research.
Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of John Wynne and Phyllis Herron, as per the estate of Gobind Behari Lal, 1983.
Biographical sketch
Gobind Behari Lal was born in Dehli in 1889, He was a journalist and a member of the Ghadar Party who participated in the
Indian independence movement. Lal came to the States to study as a research fellow at University of California, Berkeley in
1912. He wrote for and was science editor at various Hearst newspapers, in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Lal shared
the 1937 Pulitzer Prize with four other journalists for their science reporting. Lal also wrote about history, philosophy,
politics, and the intersection of science and politics in India, the United States, and worldwide. He was a founding member
of the National Association of Science Writers. Lal died in 1982, shortly after writing his last article.
Summary
The bulk of this collection pertains to Lal's career as a science journalist. It includes small amounts of correspondence,
biographical materials, and materials related to professional conferences and organizations. There are drafts and manuscripts
of Lal's writings, and reprints and clippings of his published articles and the science column he wrote for the Los Angeles
and San Francisco Examiner newspapers. There are lots of duplicates in the Examiner files. The collection also includes research
notes and notebooks, and secondary source materials and subject files on topics in medicine, other sciences, and politics
in India, the United States, and worldwide. The research notes date primarily from the sixties and seventies, and were largely
taken from books and articles Lal read or conferences he attended. These files may include some drafts of his own work. Files
on his professional activities include materials related to conferences and the National Association of Science Writers (NASW).
Preferred Citation
Gobind Behari Lal papers, BANC MSS 84/77 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley..
Processing Information
Processed at the container level by Marjorie Bryer in 2023.
Related Archival Materials
Photographs of Gobind B. Lal (BANC PIC 1984.081--AX), , The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
A journalist from India, at home in the world : oral history transcript / 1983 (BANC MSS 84/144 c), The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lal, Gobind Behari -- Archives
Journalists -- California.
Science -- India.
India -- Politics and government.
Reprints
Manuscripts for publication.
Clippings.
Notebooks.
carton 1
Correspondence
1937-1982
Scope and Contents
Includes articles about Mexico City; personalia and biographical information, 1934-1977.
carton 1
Personalia and biographical information
1934-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to two book-length projects, Science in the East and West (variously called Moral Crisis for Science
and Moral Power of Science), and Skin (which he co-wrote with Dr. Behrman).
carton 2
Materials related to Skin; and published and unpublished articles
1933-1979
carton 3
Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Herald Examiner columns
1958-1963
carton 4
Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Herald Examiner columns
1957-1981
carton 5
Newspaper clippings, including Examiner columns, and articles about Lal
approximately 1938-1977
carton 5
Research notes and notebooks
approximately 1938-1977
carton 6
Research notes and notebooks; and secondary sources - annotated science publications
approximately 1935-1972
carton 7
Secondary sources - annotated unpublished papers and medical news releases
approximately 1947-1976
carton 7
Medical, scientific, and political subject files
approximately 1930-1972
carton 7
Subject files re: India (science and politics)
approximately 1938-1977
box 1
Subject files re: India (science and politics) and professional activities
1945-1978
