Hey there everyone!!
Hope you all doing fine... so as i said in my earlier blog that this blog is going to be all about The Library, Kushk Mahal and the canteen of the bhavan.
So will talk about Kushk Mahal first....
KUSHK MAHAL
So this mahal was originally a shikarghar (hunting lodge) which was constructed by emperor Feroz Shah Tughlaq (A.D. 1321-1414) who was then the emperor, the rubble built structure has three open bays containing arches supported on typical stone pillars. It is in line with an embankment (bund) which was built to retain the water flowing from nearby higher areas.It seems to have been used as a shikarghar or hunting lodge. It is now a place which is hidden in the dense forest kind of a place but still restored as it is and is accessible through long flight of stairs.
THE LIBRARY
The library is a place for history and politics lovers. The library has books on modern India.The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) is a museum and library in New Delhi, India, which aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement. Housed within the Teen Murti House complex, it is an autonomous institution under the Indian Ministry of Culture, and was founded in 1964 after the death of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. It aims to foster academic research on modern and contemporary history. Today, the Nehru Memorial Library is the world’s leading resource centre on India’s first prime minister and its archives contain the bulk of Mahatma Gandhi's writings apart from private papers of C. Rajagopalachari, B. C. Roy, Jayaprakash Narayan, Charan Singh, Sarojini Naidu and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In March 2010 it launched a digitization project of its archives, under which by June 2011, 867,000 pages of manuscripts and 29,807 photographs were scanned and 500,000 pages uploaded on the digital library website. Amongst noted publications of the NMML are Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Man of Destiny by Ruskin Bond, Nehru Anthology (1980) and Nehru Anthology.
Hope you all doing fine... so as i said in my earlier blog that this blog is going to be all about The Library, Kushk Mahal and the canteen of the bhavan.
So will talk about Kushk Mahal first....
KUSHK MAHAL
So this mahal was originally a shikarghar (hunting lodge) which was constructed by emperor Feroz Shah Tughlaq (A.D. 1321-1414) who was then the emperor, the rubble built structure has three open bays containing arches supported on typical stone pillars. It is in line with an embankment (bund) which was built to retain the water flowing from nearby higher areas.It seems to have been used as a shikarghar or hunting lodge. It is now a place which is hidden in the dense forest kind of a place but still restored as it is and is accessible through long flight of stairs.
THE LIBRARY
The library is a place for history and politics lovers. The library has books on modern India.The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) is a museum and library in New Delhi, India, which aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement. Housed within the Teen Murti House complex, it is an autonomous institution under the Indian Ministry of Culture, and was founded in 1964 after the death of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. It aims to foster academic research on modern and contemporary history. Today, the Nehru Memorial Library is the world’s leading resource centre on India’s first prime minister and its archives contain the bulk of Mahatma Gandhi's writings apart from private papers of C. Rajagopalachari, B. C. Roy, Jayaprakash Narayan, Charan Singh, Sarojini Naidu and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In March 2010 it launched a digitization project of its archives, under which by June 2011, 867,000 pages of manuscripts and 29,807 photographs were scanned and 500,000 pages uploaded on the digital library website. Amongst noted publications of the NMML are Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Man of Destiny by Ruskin Bond, Nehru Anthology (1980) and Nehru Anthology.
Nehru Memorial Museum & Library has over the years supported scholars and historians across India and through its fellowship programme, 'The Nehru Memorial Fellowship' has funded some of India’s best academics such as historian Ramachandra Guha and Chief Information Commissioner OP Kejriwal. It is also one of the best library in Delhi for Social Sciences as it has a huge collection on labour related issues in the form of PhD dissertations, reports, books,journals and news papers.On 26th April 2016 A dagger gifted to former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru by Saudi Arabia has been stolen from the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. The Incident came into light when one visitor noticed a broken glass frame in the museum.
The collection of manuscripts, historical documents and other archival materials of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) were made available online, after the digitisation project, with help of HCL Infosystems started in 2010. By May 2011, employing the Rs union Ministry of Culture funding of Rs. 10 crore, project had digitized 50 collections of manuscripts, 834 interview transcripts, 29,802 photographs, over one lakh images of the newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika (1905–1938). In all, the digitization will cover nine million documents and would be completed by 2015.
CANTEEN
The canteen is small place with indoor and outdoor seating. The outdoor seating is a place which is covered with shade and some seating
arrangement with table and chairs. The indoor seating is good, all the staff and members of the library basically come here to chill and eat.
The food served here may not be of the best quality but the rates are so freaking affordable that any one can buy it. I personally think that is
great !!
So people i hope you liked reading this blog. hope to see your views on my next blog soon !! Until then stay happy and sayonara!! :) !!
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