List of libraries in India

This is a list of libraries in India.

List

Name City/Town State Year of

establishment

Smt. Hansa Mehta Library[1] Vadodara Gujarat 1950
Gowtami Grandhalayam Rajahmundry Andhra Pradesh 1898
Saraswata Niketanam Vetapalem Andhra Pradesh 1918
Visakhapatnam Public Library Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh 1996
Bihar Hitaishi District Central Library Patna Bihar 1882[2]
Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library Patna Bihar 1842
Maharaja Harendra Kishore Public Library Bettiah Bihar 1905
Sinha Library Patna Bihar 1924
Panjab Digital Library Chandigarh Chandigarh 2003
American Library Delhi Delhi 1951
Central library, IIT Delhi Delhi Delhi 1988
Delhi Public Library Delhi Delhi 1951
Dr. Vijay Pal Memorial Library Delhi Delhi 1975
National Medical Library Delhi Delhi 1966
Nehru Memorial Museum & Library Delhi Delhi 1966
Goa State Central Library Panaji Goa 1832
Goa University Library Taleigão Goa 1985
Bookworm Children's Library Taleigão Goa 2004
Dr Francisco Luis Gomes District Library Margao Goa 2010
Andrews Library Surat Gujarat 1850
Kavi Narmad Central Library Surat Gujarat 1991
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Dharamshala Himachal Pradesh 1970
Mysore University Library Mysuru Karnataka 1918
Eloor Lending Library Ernakulam Kochi Kerala 1979
Ernakulam Public Library Kochi Kerala 1870
Kollam Public Library Kollam Kerala 1973
State Central Library Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 1829
Thrissur Public Library Thrissur Kerala 1872
Maulana Azad Central Library Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 1908
Asiatic Society of Mumbai Mumbai Maharashtra 1804
Central Library, IIT Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra 1958
David Sassoon Library Mumbai Maharashtra 1990
J. N. Petit Library Mumbai Maharashtra 1898
Marathi Granth Sangrahalaya Thane Maharashtra 1893
Mumbai Marathi Grantha Sangrahalaya Mumbai Maharashtra 1898
University of Mumbai Library Mumbai Maharashtra 1880
Nagaland State Library Kohima[3] Nagaland 1981
Harekrushna Mahtab State Library Bhubaneswar[4] Odisha 1959
Romain Rolland Library Pondicherry Puducherry 1827
Bhadariya Library Jaisalmer Rajasthan 1998
Prakrit Bharati Academy Jaipur Rajasthan 1977
University of Rajasthan Library Jaipur Rajasthan 1949
Saraswathi Mahal Library Tanjore Tamil Nadu 1535
Adyar Library Chennai Tamil Nadu 1886
Anna Centenary Library Chennai Tamil Nadu 2010
Connemara Public Library Chennai Tamil Nadu 1890
Daniel Poor Memorial Madurai Tamil Nadu 1915
Mahakavi Bharathi Memorial Library Erode Tamil Nadu 1921
Roja Muthiah Research Library Chennai Tamil Nadu 1994
Sivagurunathan Tamil Library Kumbakonam Tamil Nadu 1958
State Central Library Hyderabad Telangana 1891
Sri Krishna Devaraya Andhra Bhasha Nilayam Hyderabad Telangana 1901
City Central Library Hyderabad Telangana 1960
British Library Hyderabad Telangana 1979
Amir-ud-daula Public Library Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 1868
Bharati Bhavan Library Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 1889
Raza Library Rampur Uttar Pradesh 1774
Allahabad Public Library Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 1864
Maulana Azad Library Aligarh Uttar Pradesh 1877
Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Library Varanasi Uttar Pradesh 1917
National Library of India Kolkata West Bengal 1836
North Bengal State Library Cooch Behar West Bengal 1882

See also

References

  1. ^ ">> Smt. Hansa Mehta Library - Homepage..." Archived from the original on 2006-04-18. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  2. ^ Chakraborty, Shuchismita (2014-07-24). "Gates open up for library to go digital". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2024-12-04. Retrieved 2025-12-11.
  3. ^ "Branches - Art and Culture Nagaland". Department of Art and Culture, Nagaland. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Culture Department". odishaculture.gov.in. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25.

Further reading

  • Donald G. Davis (1990). "The Status of Library History in India: A Report of an Informal Survey and a Selective Bibliographic Essay". Libraries & Culture. 25. JSTOR 25542292.
  • Robert Wedgeworth, ed. (1993). "India". World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (3rd ed.). US: American Library Association. p. 361+. ISBN 0838906095 – via Internet Archive.
  • Dwarika N. Banerjee (1996). "The Story of Libraries in India". Daedalus. 125. JSTOR 20027402.
  • John D. McDonald; Michael Levine-Clark, eds. (2017), "India: Libraries, Archives, and Museums", Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, vol. 3 (4th ed.), US: CRC Press, p. 1992+
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