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Saturday, September 20, 2025
TopicNational Archives of India

Topic: National Archives of India

APJ Abdul Kalam’s papers get a new home — 4 boxes from Rameshwaram now in National Archives

The late former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s family officially handed over his documents and signed an agreement with the National Archives of India on 28 April.

Kashi, Ujjain, Prayagraj priests are now adding to National Archives of India

The National Archives of India is harnessing traditional knowledge and community records, director general Arun Singhal said at the South and West Asian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives meeting in Delhi.

National Archives of India acquires private paper collection of Rafi Ahmad Kidwai

This includes original correspondences between Kidwai and other eminent leaders of India, including Pt. Nehru, Sardar Patel, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, and P.D. Tandon.

National Museum guards, guides aren’t just worried about artefacts—’Will I have a job?’

A part of Modi govt's Central Vista project, Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum will open in three months. But work on moving the artefacts at the National Museum has not yet begun.

Godrej, Cipla, Tata— private archives are filling the gaps in the story of modern India

The National Archives of India has almost no record of India's Green Revolution but National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore does.

Assam State Archives shows how it’s done—5 lakh documents, 6000 maps, digitisation drive

Under Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, history in Assam has gained a new sheen with a digitisation drive.

‘Whose history?’: In Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the archives are fighting

The bone of contention is the brief overlap between when the state of Hyderabad acceded to India and when the state of Andhra Pradesh was created.

Wars to Green Revolution to Emergency, National Archives are full of gaping holes

Many ministries have lagged for decades in sending records to National Archives of India, according to its director-general Chandan Sinha. The losers are scholars and public alike.

Why fugitives should get ‘visa on (CBI’s) arrival’ & revenge is a dish best served by bulldozer

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

The two anxieties surrounding India’s archives

It is the records kept in places such as the National Archives that are referred to when the government’s version is at cross purposes with the people’s history.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.