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Archives of Contemporary India Collections updated as on

March 2025

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

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