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This is a list of archives which were held in India, which collect and store historical documents, photographs, shashtras and all the other media.

Archives

National Archives

• 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

• 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 - "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
• Sarmaya Arts Foundation
• Sikkim state archives
• St Kuriakose Elias Chavara Archives and Research Centre Mannanam - established in Mannanam, Kottayam, Kerala as the "Church and Historical Archives"

Other archives

• 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

• List of museums in India
• Open access in India

References

1. "National Manuscripts mission inauguration". National Informatics center. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
2. "Bihar state archives (BSA)". Government of Bihar. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
3. "Delhi archives: About". Government of Delhi. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
4. "Haryana state Archives". Government of Haryana. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
5. "Karnataka state Archives". Government of Karnataka. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
6. "Kerala state Archives: About". Government of Kerala. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
7. "MP state archives". Archived from the original on 11 April 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
8. "Maharashtra state Archives". C-DAC. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
9. "Manipur state Archives". Govt of Manipur. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
10. "Mizoram state archives" (PDF). Government of Mizoram. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
11. "State archive building inaugurated in Kohima". Nagaland Post. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
12. "Punjab state Archives". Government of Punjab. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
13. "Rajasthan State Archive, Bikaner". Government of Rajasthan. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
14. "Tamilnadu state Archives". Government of Tamilnadu. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
15. "India labour archives". Archived from the original on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.