JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Center for Central Asian Studies

Research Library

University of Kashmir

Hazratbal, Srinagar 190006

Introduction: The Center is a unit within the University of Kashmir.

Catalog (s): Fihrist-i makhtuat, Risarch librairi, edited by Ghulam Rasual Bat, (Srinagar: Center for Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, 1989)

Jammu & Kashmir Islamic Research Center

P.O. Nowshehra

Srinagar 190001

Introduction: Abdur Rahman Kondoo, a lawyer, established The Center in 1996.

Number of manuscripts: Several thousand.

Works about the history or individual manuscripts in the library:

Yoginder Sikand, “A Man With a Mission,” Milli Gazette 1-15 July 2002, p. 18.

Research and Publications Department

Government of Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar

Introduction: An introduction is by Mohammad Ibrahim, “Manuscript Material of the Mughal Period in the Research and Publications Department, Srinagar,” pp. 522-525, in Sources of the History of India, Vol. II, edited by S.P. Sen, (Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1979).

Catalog (s): Fihrist-i nuskhah’ha-yi khatti-i kitabkhanah-i shubah-i Tahqiq wa Ishaat, Kashmir…, edited by Syed Ahmad Husayni, (Delhi: Markaz-i Tahqiqat-i Zaban-i Farsi dar Hind, 1986), A Descriptive Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Research and Publications [Department] Library, edited by Abdul Majid Matoo, (Srinagar: Center of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, 1994)

Sir Pratap Singh Museum

Lalmandi

Srinagar 190008

Introduction: Mohammad Siddiq Niazmand, “Persian Manuscripts in the S.P.S. Museum, Srinagar.” Journal of Central Asian Studies (Srinagar) 7 (1996): 97-100.

16 Manuscripts described.