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Archives of Contemporary India Collections updated as on

June 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. Basu, Ranoj (former Permanent Secretary, AICC) Click here to view catalogue
  7. Bhatt, Chandi Prasad (environmentalist & Chipko movement leader) Click here to view catalogue
  8. Bidwai, Praful (journalist, political analyst & activist) Click here to view catalogue
  9. Bindra, Prerna Singh (wildlife conservationist, journalist & writer)
  10. Chaturvedi, Nand (poet) Click here to view catalogue
  11. Chavda, Divyabhanusinh (wildlife conservationist) 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. Dharker, Anil (journalist & editor)
  20. Devdutt (journalist & writer)
  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, Rajmohan (academic & author)
  24. Gandhi, Gopalkrishna (academic & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  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. Harriss-White, Barbara (academic & political economist)
  29. Hazards Centre (NGO) Click here to view catalogue
  30. Hiro, Dilip (author & journalist)
  31. Hoot Archive (Digital)
  32. Hornbill: Magazine of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
  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. Karnad, Girish (film actor/director & Kannada playwright) Click here to view catalogue
  39. Karanth, K. Ullas (wildlife conservationist & tiger expert)
  40. Kohli, Suresh (literary critic, filmmaker and film historian) Click here to view catalogue
  41. Kumar, Deepak (academic)
  42. Laiq, Jawid (journalist)
  43. Lambah, S.K. (scholar & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  44. Machwe, Prabhakar (Hindi/Marathi/English writer & poet) Click here to view catalogue
  45. Nainital Samachar/Rajiv Lochan Sah (fortnightly, 1977-2023)
  46. MacFarquhar, R.L. (China scholar, politician and journalist) Click here to view catalogue
  47. Mainstream (Current Affairs Weekly, 1962-2020)
  48. Manikfan, Ali (ecologist)
  49. Manorama Jafa Children's Literature Collection (Children's Literature)
  50. Mehrotra, S.R. (historian & author)
  51. Menon, Ritu (feminist writer & publisher)
  52. Mehta, Jagat (scholar & diplomat)
  53. Nagarkar, Kiran (English/Marathi writer & novelist) Click here to view catalogue
  54. Nayar, Kuldip (journalist & writer) Click here to view catalogue
  55. Padgaonkar, Dileep (journalist & writer) Click here to view catalogue
  56. Paranjpye, Sai (film director & screenwriter) Click here to view catalogue
  57. Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli (former President of India) Catalogue 1, 2 & 3 Click here to view catalogue
  58. Raghavan, Nedyam (barrister, freedom fighter & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  59. Rahmani, Asad (wildlife conservationist)
  60. R. Rajamani (former IAS officer and environmentalist)
  61. Rampal, Anita (educationist & author) Click here to view catalogue
  62. Ranjitsinh, M.K. (wildlife conservationist) Catalogue No. 1 Click here to view catalogue
  63. Rauf Ali (environmentalist) Click here to view catalogue
  64. Sahgal, Captain Lakshmi (freedom fighter & social activist) Click here to view catalogue
  65. Sajjan (indian film and stage actor)
  66. Sanctuary Asia: Indian nature & wildlife conservation magazine
  67. Samajwadi Party Publications (Bulletins/Pamphlets)
  68. Santhanam, K (freedom fighter & journalist)
  69. Sastri, Prema (author) Click here to view catalogue
  70. Saxena, K.B. (former civil servant & academic)
  71. Sankhala, Kailash (wildlife conservationist & tiger expert)
  72. Shah Commission Papers (Inquiry materials)
  73. Shahi, S.P. (wildlife conservationist)
  74. Sharma, Balkrishna ‘Naveen’ (freedom fighter, journalist & Hindi poet)
  75. Simeon, Dilip (labour historian & social activist) Click here to view catalogue
  76. Sharma, Suresh (academic)
  77. Sharma, Narendra (Trade Union leader)
  78. Singh, Manmohan (former Prime Minister of India) Click here to view catalogue
  79. Singh, Kavita (art historian)
  80. Singhal, Devahuti and Damodar P. (historians & authors) Click here to view catalogue
  81. Singhvi, L. M. (jurist & diplomat) Click here to view catalogue
  82. Srivastava, Pramod (historian) Click here to view catalogue
  83. Srivastava, Vinay Kumar (anthropologist & author)
  84. Suman Sahai-Gene Campaign (NGO)
  85. Talwar, Vir Bharat (academic & Jharkhand movement activist)
  86. Tehsin, Raza (wildlife conservationist) Catalogue No. 1 & 2 (Digital Material) Click here to view catalogue
  87. Tiwari, Satyendra Kumar (wildlife photographer) Bandhavgarh slides
  88. Vanaik, Achin (author & social activist)
  89. Uttara Mahila Patrika magazine Click here to view catalogue
  90. Vasudev, Aruna (India film scholar, critic & painter)
  91. Vatsyayan, S.H. 'Agyeya' (writer & poet)
  92. Verghese, B. G. (journalist & writer) Click here to view catalogue
  93. WWF Newsletter

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