| Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library | |
|---|---|
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| Location | Patna, Bihar, India, India |
| Type | National library |
| Established | 29 October 1891[1] |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | Manuscripts, books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints and drawings etc |
| Size | 2,082,904 (printed books) 21,136 (manuscripts) (5,000,000 total items) |
| Legal deposit | Yes, Institution of National Importance by Act of Parliament, 26 December 1969 |
| Access and use | |
| Access requirements | Open to anyone with a genuine need to use the collection |
| Other information | |
| Director | Shayesta Bedar, (since January, 2019) |
| Website | http://kblibrary.bih.nic.in/ |
Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library is one of the national libraries of India,[2] located in Patna, Bihar.[3] It was opened to public on 29 October 1891 by Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh with 4,000 manuscripts, of which he inherited 1,400 from his father Maulvi Mohammed Bakhsh. It is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and is governed by a Board with the Governor of Bihar as its ex officio Chairman, and is known for its rare collection of Persian and Arabic manuscripts. It also hosts paintings made during the Rajput and Mughal eras of India.
It is also a designated 'Manuscript Conservation Centre' (MCC) under the National Mission for Manuscripts.[4]
- ^ "Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (Historical Perspective)". kblibrary.bih.nic.in. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ "Destinations :: Patna". Archived from the original on 18 September 2014.
- ^ "Patna's Khuda Bakhsh library continues to draw foreign scholars". 10 May 2019.
- ^ Manuscript Conservation Centres Archived 6 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine National Mission for Manuscripts.