List of archives in India explained

This is a list of archives which were held in India, which collect and store historical documents, photographs, shashtras and all the other media.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

• 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 - "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 https://www.sarmaya.in
• Sikkim state archives
• http://kearchives.in/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

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Manuscripts mission inauguration . National Informatics center . 13 March 2013.
2. Web site: Bihar state archives (BSA). Government of Bihar . 13 March 2013 .
3. Web site: Delhi archives: About . Government of Delhi . 13 March 2013.
4. Web site: Haryana state Archives. Government of Haryana . 24 March 2016.
5. Web site: Karnataka state Archives. Government of Karnataka . 12 March 2013.
6. Web site: Kerala state Archives: About . Government of Kerala . 13 March 2013.
7. Web site: MP state archives. https://web.archive.org/web/20100411032940/http://www.mparchaeology.org/overarch.asp. 2010-04-11. dead. 23 January 2015.
8. Web site: Maharashtra state Archives. C-DAC. 12 March 2013.
9. Web site: Manipur state Archives . Govt of Manipur . 12 March 2013.
10. Web site: Mizoram state archives . Government of Mizoram . 13 March 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083458/http://mizoram.nic.in/rti/manual/ArtCulture/statearchive.pdf . 4 March 2016 . dead .
11. News: State archive building inaugurated in Kohima. Nagaland Post . 13 March 2013.
12. Web site: Punjab state Archives. Government of Punjab . 24 March 2016.
13. Web site: Rajasthan State Archive, Bikaner . Government of Rajasthan . 13 March 2013.
14. Web site: Tamilnadu state Archives. Government of Tamilnadu . 12 March 2013.
15. Web site: India labour archives . 13 March 2013 . https://archive.today/20130802015948/http://www.indialabourarchives.org/aboutarchives.htm . 2 August 2013 . dead .