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This is a list of archives which were held in India, which collect and store historical documents, photographs, shashtras and all the other media.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

• 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.

State archives

• 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.
• Delhi archives - established in New Delhi in 1972.
• 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
• Himachal Pradesh state archives - established in 1979.
• Karnataka state archives - established in Bangalore in 1972.
• Kerala state archives - established in Thiruvanandapuram in 1962.
• - "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."
• Maharashtra state archives - in Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur and Vidarbha.
• Manipur state archives - established in Imphal in 1982
• Mizoram state archives - established in Aizawl in 1979.
• Nagaland state archives - established Kohima in 2012.
• Odisha state archives
• Punjab state archives - known as the Punjab State Archives, Patiala
• Rajasthan state archives - is established in Bikaner.
• Tamil Nadu Archives previously known as Madras Record Office - established in 1909 at Madras.
• West Bengal state archives
• Sikkim state archives

Other archives

• Archives of Indian Labour - established in Noida in 1998.
• Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
• Gandhi Research Foundation, Gandhi Teerth, Jalgaon
• Indian Memory Project, Mumbai - established in 2010
• http://kearchives.in/St Kuriakose Elias Chavara Archives and Research Centre Mannanam - established in Mannanam, Kottayam, Kerala as the "Church and Historical Archives"
• Cooch Behar Archive - established in 2013 at Cooch Behar District, West Bengal
• Sarmaya Arts Foundation https://www.sarmaya.in

See also

• List of museums in India
• Open access in India

References