Preserving The Past

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Preserving The Past

Four simple – yet difficult – steps for reforming Indian archives and libraries

Priceless documents are left to rot, disintegrate and be consumed by termites and vermin – or be stolen or misplaced. This state of affairs is unfathomable.

Dinyar Patel · Feb 07, 2025 · 09:00 am

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Sidelined by mainstream academia, the community is gathering and preserving documents, photographs, BR Ambedkar’s broken spectacles and dentures and more.

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