National Archives of India

TIMING
The Archives Office is open
for research from 
09:30 AM to 05:30 PM
(Monday – Saturday).

It is closed on Sundays
and other public holidays.
Need Help !
I hope this helps in making use of this Archive a little easier! If you have any questions, you are  than welcome to email me –anupamaverma@jgu.edu.in
CONTACT DETAILS
Phone: +91-11-23383436 (Director General of                              Archives)
             +91-11-23384067 (Deputy Director of                               Archives,    Records)
             +91-11-23388557 (Asst. Director of Archives,                  Records)
Email: archives@nic.in
PREPARED BY:
Anupama Verma
Librarians

M Madhan

Anupama Verma

INTRODUCTION
 


The National Archives of India is the custodian of the records of enduring value of the Government of India. Established on 11 March, 1891 at Calcutta (Kolkata) as the Imperial Record Department, it is the biggest archival repository in South Asia. It has a vast corpus of records viz., public records, private papers, oriental records, cartographic records and microfilms, which constitute an invaluable source of information for scholars-administrators and users of archives. National Archives of India has one Regional Office at Bhopal and three Records Centres at Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry.




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COLLECTION
The holdings in the National Archives are in a regular series starting from the year 1748. The languages of the records include English, Arabic, Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit and Urdu, and their materials include paper, palm leaf, birch bark and parchment.
The records are in sixteen categories: Public Records, Oriental Records, Manuscripts and Private Papers, Cartographic Records, Defence, Education & Health, Home Education, Home Index, Library collection, Home Political etc.

The records are in sixteen categories:
  • Cartographic Records - 207
  • Defence Records - 6095
  • Dr. Rajendra Prasad Records - 48
  • Education & Health -6150
  • Home Education - 3153
  • Home Index -95
  • Library collection -411
  • Home Political -28035
  • Kasturbhai Lalbhai -4
  • Ministry of Education -5025
  • Public Records -79114
  • Oriental Records -8
  • P.K. Malviya -4428
  • Private Papers -7424
  • Reference Tools -87
  • S.C. Dixit -19
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Janpath Road, Opposite Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Near Shastri Bhavan, Rajpath Area, Central Secretariat, New Delhi-110001
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