Special historic documents including those related to Swami Vivekananda’s arrival in Almora in 1902, extension of the Haridwar-Dehradun railway line upto Rajpur dated 1902 and the 1916 invitation to the marriage of the then Tehri king Narendra Shah and various other historic documents will be displayed at the Doon library and Research Centre here on Wednesday. The historic documents will be part of an exhibition being organised by DlRC with the help of the State Archives to inform and raise awareness on the importance of archives. According to the DlRC director BK Joshi, the archives will display 45 documents and copies of newspapers in the exhibition which will be open from 10 am to 5 pm.
Some of the important documents to be displayed in the exhibition include a 1925 letter regarding protection of the Ashoka edict; a 1928 document on penalty for parking car, lorry and tanga on Dehradun’s Rajpur Road; the role of Chandra Singh Garhwali in the historic Peshawar incident of 1930; documents related to Jawaharlal Nehru as an inmate of Almora jail in 1934 and document related to construction of the Clock Tower by the Dehradun city board in 1947. In addition to this, document dated April 20, 1930 pertaining to the penal action against Narayan Datt Dangwal, Nardev Shastri, Bihari lal, Mahavir Tyagi, Hulas Verma and other activists for violation of the salt law at Kharakhet in Dehradun during the salt Satyagraha. Copies of newspapers published from Uttarakhand during the Indian freedom movement including Shakti (1927, 1933), Kumaon Kumud (1937) Congress Bulletin (1937) and Pataka (1943) will also be displayed in the exhibition.
The exhibition will be inaugurated on Wednesday morning by the DlRC director in the presence of State archives director Dr lalta Prasad who will also inform the gathering about the importance of archives and their use.