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Archives of Contemporary India Collections updated as on

July 2025

  1. Anand, A. S. (former Chief Justice of India) Click here to view catalogue
  2. Aniket/Ramesh Pahari Weekly magazine
  3. Bajpai, K.S. (scholar & diplomat)
  4. Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta (academic & environmentalist)
  5. Banerjee, Debarati (interviews of participants in Chipko movement, Uttrakhand)
  6. Bidwai, Praful (journalist, political analyst & activist) Click here to view catalogue
  7. Bhatt, Chandi Prasad (environmentalist & Chipko movement leader) Click here to view catalogue
  8. Basu, Ranoj (former Permanent Secretary, AICC) Click here to view catalogue
  9. Bindra, Prerna Singh (wildlife conservationist, journalist & writer)
  10. Chavda, Divyabhanusinh (wildlife conservationist) Click here to view catalogue
  11. Chaturvedi, Nand (poet) Click here to view catalogue
  12. Cheetal : Journal of Wildlife Click here to view catalogue
  13. Choudhury, D. K. Lahiri (wildlife ecologist & elephant expert) Click here to view catalogue
  14. Crow, Ben (professor of sociology)
  15. Dang, Hari (mountaineer, environmentalist & natural historian)
  16. Dasgupta, Chandrashekhar (scholar & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  17. Dasgupta, Prosenjit (wildlife naturalist scholar & writer) Click here to view catalogue
  18. Deshpande, M.N. (archaeologist, art historian & conservationist) Click here to view catalogue
  19. Devdutt (journalist & writer)
  20. Dharker, Anil (journalist & editor)
  21. Dua, H.K. (journalist) Click here to view catalogue
  22. Dunu Roy (social activist, political ecologist & social scientist) Click here to view catalogue
  23. Gandhi, Gopalkrishna (academic & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  24. Gandhi, Rajmohan (academic & author)
  25. Gupta, S.P.K. (author & journalist) Click here to view catalogue
  26. Gupta, Narayani (academic)
  27. Haksar, Nandita (lawyer, human rights activist & writer)
  28. Hazards Centre (NGO) Click here to view catalogue
  29. Harriss-White, Barbara (academic & political economist)
  30. Hiro, Dilip (author & journalist)
  31. Hornbill: Magazine of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
  32. Hoot Archive (Digital)
  33. Jain, Lakshmi Chandra (writer & journalist) Click here to view catalogue
  34. Jain, Kuntha (author) Click here to view catalogue
  35. Jayal, Nalni D. (environmentalist) Click here to view catalogue
  36. Jha, Prem Shankar (journalist) Click here to view catalogue
  37. Jussawalla, Adil (Poet and magazine editor)
  38. Kapila, Madhur (Indian writer, journalist and art critic)
  39. Karanth, K. Ullas (wildlife conservationist & tiger expert)
  40. Karnad, Girish (film actor/director & Kannada playwright) Click here to view catalogue
  41. Kohli, Suresh (literary critic, filmmaker and film historian) Click here to view catalogue
  42. Kumar, Deepak (academic)
  43. Laiq, Jawid (journalist)
  44. Lambah, S.K. (scholar & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  45. Nainital Samachar/Rajiv Lochan Sah (fortnightly, 1977-2023)
  46. Machwe, Prabhakar (Hindi/Marathi/English writer & poet) Click here to view catalogue
  47. MacFarquhar, R.L. (China scholar, politician and journalist) Click here to view catalogue
  48. Mainstream (Current Affairs Weekly, 1962-2020)
  49. Manikfan, Ali (ecologist)
  50. Manorama Jafa Children's Literature Collection (Children's Literature)
  51. Mehrotra, S.R. (historian & author)
  52. Mehta, Jagat (scholar & diplomat)
  53. Menon, Ritu (feminist writer & publisher)
  54. Nagarkar, Kiran (English/Marathi writer & novelist) Click here to view catalogue
  55. Nayyar, Deepak (Indian economist)
  56. Nayar, Kuldip (journalist & writer) Click here to view catalogue
  57. Padgaonkar, Dileep (journalist & writer) Click here to view catalogue
  58. Paranjpye, Sai (film director & screenwriter) Click here to view catalogue
  59. Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli (former President of India) Catalogue 1, 2 & 3 Click here to view catalogue
  60. Raghavan, Nedyam (barrister, freedom fighter & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  61. Rahmani, Asad (wildlife conservationist)
  62. Rampal, Anita (educationist & author) Click here to view catalogue
  63. R. Rajamani (former IAS officer and environmentalist)
  64. Ranjitsinh, M.K. (wildlife conservationist) Catalogue No. 1 Click here to view catalogue
  65. Rauf Ali (environmentalist) Click here to view catalogue
  66. Sahgal, Captain Lakshmi (freedom fighter & social activist) Click here to view catalogue
  67. Samajwadi Party Publications (Bulletins/Pamphlets)
  68. Sanctuary Asia: Indian nature & wildlife conservation magazine
  69. ‘Sajjan’, Kumar Purohit (indian film and stage actor)
  70. Santhanam, K (freedom fighter & journalist)
  71. Sastri, Prema (author) Click here to view catalogue
  72. Saxena, K.B. (former civil servant & academic)
  73. Sankhala, Kailash (wildlife conservationist & tiger expert)
  74. Shah Commission Papers (Inquiry materials)
  75. Shahi, S.P. (wildlife conservationist)
  76. Sharma, Balkrishna ‘Naveen’ (freedom fighter, journalist & Hindi poet)
  77. Sharma, Suresh (academic)
  78. Simeon, Dilip (labour historian & social activist) Click here to view catalogue
  79. Sharma, Narendra (Trade Union leader)
  80. Singh, Manmohan (former Prime Minister of India) Click here to view catalogue
  81. Singhal, Devahuti and Damodar P. (historians & authors) Click here to view catalogue
  82. Singh, Kavita (art historian)
  83. Singhvi, L. M. (jurist & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  84. Srivastava, Pramod (historian) Click here to view catalogue
  85. Srivastava, Vinay Kumar (anthropologist & author)
  86. Suman Sahai-Gene Campaign (NGO)
  87. Tehsin, Raza (wildlife conservationist) Catalogue No. 1 & 2 (Digital Material) Click here to view catalogue
  88. Talwar, Vir Bharat (academic & Jharkhand movement activist)
  89. Tiwari, Satyendra Kumar (wildlife photographer) Bandhavgarh slides
  90. Vanaik, Achin (author & social activist)
  91. Uttara Mahila Patrika magazine Click here to view catalogue
  92. Vasudev, Aruna (India film scholar, critic & painter)
  93. Vatsyayan, S.H. 'Agyeya' (writer & poet)
  94. Verghese, B. G. (journalist & writer) Click here to view catalogue
  95. WWF Newsletter

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