Introduction to Archives and Museums

Contents: First Section: Archives and Museum. 1. Introduction/Madhurima Sen. 2. Records and archives: Changing concept of records and record keeping in India/Rina Sinha. 3. Some aspects of conservation and archives: an overview/Asis Biswas. 4. Digitization: its use and utility in archives and other repositories/Swapan Mukherjee. 5. Archival exhibitions: Indian perspective/Rajmani. 6. Museum/Baisakhi Mitra. 7. Articles in Bengali. Second Section: Some Government Repositories. 1. Brief outline/Madhurima Sen. 2. The National Archives of India, New Delhi. 3. Regional office, Bhopal. 4. Records Centre, Jaipur. 5. Records Centre, Pondicherry. 6. Records Centre, Bhubaneswar. 7. The State Archives of Maharashtra. 8. The State Archives of Tamilnadu. Sample Question. Appendix 1. Policy Resolution, 1972. 2. The Public Records Rule, 1997. 3. Note on the Minimum Requirements for a record room. 4. Record retention schedule. 5. The Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972.