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New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Congress general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh on Thursday highlighted a new digital archival facility launched by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund to access documents related to the freedom struggle and the early years of independent India.
The Congress leader shared the information on Twitter and said, “Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund has recently launched a smartphone-friendly http://nehruarchive.in.”
Ramesh said, “It is an easily searchable and freely downloadable digital collection, initially built around 100 published volumes of the selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru covering the period 1903-1964. It contains over 75,000 pages and over 3,000 images.”
Ramesh wrote, “The collection will continue to expand to include more text, photographs, audio and films. Archives around the world that contain letters written to Nehru are being contacted to expand the collection. It will also include books written by and on Nehru during his lifetime.”
Earlier, JNMF said in a statement, “The website The Nehru Archive is available at nehruarchive.in. The entire set of 100 volumes has been digitized; they can be searched and downloaded freely, and they can be used as easily on mobile as on laptop. Replicas of the original print edition with digital text are also available.”
“This online edition will be very beneficial for those who wish to study any aspect of Indian history from the 1920s to the 1960s, when Nehru was a prominent leader of the independence movement and thereafter the country’s Prime Minister,” JNMF Secretary Professor Madhavan Palat said in the statement.
It contains approximately 35,000 documents and approximately 3000 images. From Volume 44 onwards, i.e. from September 1958 onwards, his speeches are also available in original Hindi and English translation. The documents include his correspondence, speeches, interviews, administrative notes on files, diary entries and even doodles. However, this is only a beginning, it said.
“Subsequently, new objects will be added in phases. These will be photographs, audios, videos, books of Nehru, books on Nehru and other publications that came out during his lifetime, any other documents available in the public domain, Hindi original copy of his speeches which were not published in the selected works, and other similar objects,” JNMF said.
–IANS
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