List of archives in India
This is a list of archives which were held in India, which collect and store historical documents, photographs, shashtras and all the other media.
National Archives
[edit]- National Archives of India - established in Kolkata as the "Imperial Record Department" in 1891.
- National Film Archive of India
- National Mission for Manuscripts - established in New Delhi in 2003.[1]
- Assam State Archives
- Uttar Pradesh State Archives- established at Lucknow in 1975.
- Bihar state archives - established in Patna in 1912 as the Civil secretariat record room.[2]
- Delhi archives - established in New Delhi in 1972.[3]
- Goa state archives - established in Panaji on 25 February 1595 by Diogo do Couto and was called "Torre do Tombo do Estado da India". The oldest record is from the year 1498.
- Haryana state archives[4]
- Himachal Pradesh state archives - established in 1979.
- Karnataka state archives - established in Bangalore in 1972.[5]
- Kerala state archives - established in Thiruvanandapuram in 1962.[6]
- Madhya Pradesh state archives[usurped] - "The new State of Madhya Pradesh came into existence on 1st November 1956. It was carved out of the parts of old Madhya Pradesh (Central Provinces & Berar) the erstwhile States of Gwalior, Indore, Bhopal, Rewa and Madhya Bharat State."[7]
- Maharashtra state archives - in Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur and Vidarbha.[8]
- Manipur state archives - established in Imphal in 1982 [9]
- Mizoram state archives - established in Aizawl in 1979.[10]
- Nagaland state archives - established Kohima in 2012.[11]
- Odisha state archives
- Punjab state archives[12]
- Rajasthan state archives - is established in Bikaner.[13]
- Tamil Nadu Archives previously known as Madras Record Office - established in 1909 at Madras.[14]
- West Bengal state archives
- Cooch Behar Archive - established in 2013 at Cooch Behar District, West Bengal
- Sarmaya Arts Foundation [1]
- Sikkim state archives
- [2]St Kuriakose Elias Chavara Archives and Research Centre Mannanam - established in Mannanam, Kottayam, Kerala as the "Church and Historical Archives"
Other archives
[edit]- Archives of Indian Labour - established in Noida in 1998.[15]
- Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
- Gandhi Research Foundation, Gandhi Teerth, Jalgaon
- Indian Memory Project, Mumbai - established in 2010
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "National Manuscripts mission inauguration". National Informatics center. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "Bihar state archives (BSA)". Government of Bihar. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "Delhi archives: About". Government of Delhi. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "Haryana state Archives". Government of Haryana. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Karnataka state Archives". Government of Karnataka. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ "Kerala state Archives: About". Government of Kerala. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "MP state archives". Archived from the original on 11 April 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Maharashtra state Archives". C-DAC. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ "Manipur state Archives". Govt of Manipur. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ "Mizoram state archives" (PDF). Government of Mizoram. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "State archive building inaugurated in Kohima". Nagaland Post. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "Punjab state Archives". Government of Punjab. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Rajasthan State Archive, Bikaner". Government of Rajasthan. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "Tamilnadu state Archives". Government of Tamilnadu. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ "India labour archives". Archived from the original on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
