List of archives in India
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This is a list of archives which were held in India, which collect and store historical documents, photographs, shashtras and all the other media.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 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]
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.[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] - known as the Punjab State Archives, Patiala
- 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
- Sikkim state archives
