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Stacked end to end, all the shelves at the National Archives of India (NAI) would stretch up to 45km. That is almost the length of Delhi. Luckily for us though, India’s rich historical heritage is not strewn across the Capital’s dusty Ring Road but stored in climate-controlled rooms within the monolith structure that is the National Archives of India. Built by Edwin Lutyens, for the express purpose of preserving Imperial India’s heritage, the erstwhile Imperial Records Department, rechristened the National Archives of India after Independence, continues to be a permanent home for the subcontinent’s past. As its website states, the ‘NAI is the repository of non-current records of the Government of India and holds them in trust for the use of administrators and scholars’. http://bit.ly/1R03Q6Q http://bit.ly/1R03Q6Q+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org "The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition. They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations." Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978. Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra