The literature lovers can now read a century old books at Bhopal. A 100 year old Agra library's precious and rare books are now kept at Madhavrao Sapre Smiriti Samachar Patra Sanghralaya and Shodh Sansthan, Bhopal.
Notably to observe the World Museum Day, the books of a century old library's books and letters have been kept in Sapre Museum Bhopal.
The Chiranjeev library of Agra was established in year 1916 by Chiranjeev lal Paliwal. The library holds a rare collection of books which are a decade old and which are too rare to study. Now, the Bhopalites can have a view of these books and letters of the renowned writers.
Interestingly, with the inclusion of these books the Sapre Museum is now adorned with as many as one lakh books of different subjects. Also now the museum holds a record of almost 2 crores of rare letters which can be seen there.
The Spare Museum now has the books of not only different genres but also different languages such as Gujarati, Hindi, English, Urdu, Bengali, and Sanskrit. Earlier, there 25 thousand books at the Sapre Museum and now there are double of them.
It is noteworthy that Agra library was run by three generations of Chiranjeev lal Paliwal. Recently, his great grandson Vijay Dutt Paliwal has handed over the books and rare letter collections to Sapre Museum Bhopal. Before he handed over the precious collection, he visited Sapre Museum to have a look at the facilities and the campus. After his visit, the decision was taken.