24th Jan, 2016
National Archives of India (NAI)
It is a repository of the non-current records of the Government of India and holds them in trust for the use of administrators and scholars. Originally established as the Imperial Record Department in 1891, in Calcutta, then capital of British India.
Professor G.W. Forrest of Elphinstone College, Bombay was entrusted the job to examine the records of the Foreign Department of the Government of India. In his report, he made a strong plea for transferring all records of the administration of East India Company to a Central Repository. As a result, Imperial Records Department (IRD) came into existence on 11 March 1891
It is under the Ministry of Culture.
Shri K.R. Narayanan, then President of India, declared the "Museum of the National Archives" open to the general public on 6 July 1998.
The holdings in the National Archives are in a regular series starting from the year 1748. The records are in four categories: Public Records, Oriental Records, Manuscripts and Private Papers.
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