About the Book: Archiving the British Raj: History of the Archival Policy of the
Government of India, with Selected Documents, 18581947
The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our
past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the
path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up
of the Imperial Record Department, the precursor of the National Archives of
India, and the Indian Historical Records Commission, to the framing of archival
policies and the change in those policies over the years. In the last two
decades of colonial rule in India, there were