Archives at peril

Dinyar Patel is following up on his India Ink series with another series of blog posts - see: http://yazdgerd.net/
 
In these he plans to post some descriptive guides to archives and libraries in India, including the National Archives of India and the Maharashtra State Archives.

Followers of the SAALG blog are encouraged to submit posts relating to their own experiences of using Indian archives and libraries.

India's Rotting History

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.