Archive · 21 Nov 2025
Nehru Archive Launched: Digital Treasure Trove of India's History
A big collection of old papers and pictures about India's history, especially when Jawaharlal Nehru was in charge, has been put online.
You can now easily find and read these important documents in many languages.
The team is working to add more things and make the collection even bigger.
Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) launched nehruarchive.in, a digital archive of Indian history from the 1920s to the 1960s.
The archive contains 77,000 pages of digitized documents, including letters, speeches, interviews, and illustrations.
Every document is fully searchable, cross-referenced, and supported by meticulously added metadata.
The archive includes documents in multiple languages, reflecting Nehru's international engagements.
The team aims to expand the archive to include every available letter to and from Nehru, and coordinate with international institutions for relevant documents.
- Who
- Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF)
- What
- Launched a digital archive of Indian history from the 1920s to the 1960s
- When
- 20 November 2025
- Where
- Online, at nehruarchive.in
- Why
- To make Nehru's vast writings easily navigable and accessible to scholars and readers
Inclusion of Private Collections
Respect for Privacy
Inclusion of Private Collections
Inclusion of Private Collections
Some argue that the archive should approach Sonia Gandhi and other family members for unpublished letters to make the collection more comprehensive.
Respect for Privacy
Others believe that the archive should respect privacy and only include publicly available materials, as the current team has done.
- Total Pages
- 77,000
- Current Documents
- 35,000
- Current Illustrations
- Nearly 3,000
- Languages
- Hindi, English, French, German, Russian, Urdu, and others
