By� Pratul Sharma - NEW DELHI
The colonial and imposing edifice of the National Archives of India building adjoining the Rajpath has decided to open up, at least digitally. The country's premier repository � which houses documents dating back to Mughal times, exhaustive accounts of British rule in India, the freedom struggle and days after independence � has digitised its publications printed in the last 70 years. To start with, the National Archives of India (NAI) has uploaded the digitised versions of non-priced books, pamphlets and material printed by it. Most of these books chronicling the material with the NAI had gone out of the print and only library copies were available. These books can now be downloaded from the institution's website. Priced books will also soon be made available digitally as a payment gateway is being set up on the site. This would enable scholars to access documents which were till now only available to senior researchers at the NAI. Among the documents is a compilation of patriotic poetry banned by the British. Swatantra Suram � a 82-page book in Telugu based on patriotic, proscribed literature. Among other works up online is a special booklet of the 1930 editions of Abhudaya � a� newspaper started by Madan Mohan Malviya � that has the coverage on Bhagat Singh, his writings and trial. Another edition of Abhudaya on Subash Chandra Bose, published in 1946, can also be accessed online and downloaded. Records at NIA run into 40 kilometres of shelf-space and are in regular series from the year 1748. - Nandakumar |
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