Do read Dinyar Patel's reports on the sorrowful state of many Indian archives and libraries.
Links to his four-part series on
the New York Times' "India Ink" site can be found below. The series looks at the woeful state
of many Indian archives and libraries, and what is being done to improve
the situation.
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/in-india-history-literally-rots-away/
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/repairing-the-damage-at-indias-national-archives/
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/indias-archives-how-did-things-get-this-bad/
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/the-parsis-once-indias-curators-now-shrug-as-history-rots/
Dinyar Patel is a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern South Asia in the Department of History at Harvard University.
1 comment:
This is fascinating and such an insight into the trials and tribulations of India's Libraries and Archives...
Thank you for this Rachel.
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