NationalarChives:印度國家檔案館是印度官網文化管理機構，負責接收和保管印度歷史檔案及中央政府各機關的檔案，并對中央政府機關的文書工作和檔案工作進行監督。
印度中央級綜合性檔案館，負責接收和保管印度歷史檔案及中央政府各機關的檔案，并對中央政府機關的文書工作和檔案工作進行監督。1947年成立,前身是1891年建立的帝國檔案部。館址在新德里。是亞洲地區規模較大的檔案館之一。
印度國家檔案館擔負了檔案管理機構的一些職能，但無權對各邦檔案工作施加影響。歷史檔案委員會與國家檔案館密切合作，在一定程度上彌補了不設檔案管理機構的缺陷。國家檔案館館長擔任歷史檔案委員會的秘書，因而可通過歷史檔案委員會對各邦的檔案工作施加某種程度的影響。
印度歷史檔案委員會也聘請外國學者擔任它的通訊委員。五十年代，我國著名歷史學家尚鉞和檔案學家吳寶康曾受聘擔任它的通訊委員。
The genesis of the National Archives of India may be traced back to the year 1860 when Sandeman, the Civil Auditor, in his report stressed the need of relieving the offices of congestion by destruction of the papers of routine nature and transfer of all valuable records to a ‘Grand Central Archive’. Nothing could come out, however, in concrete shape until 1889 when Professor G.W. Forrest of Elphinstone College, Bombay was entrusted the job to examine the records of the Foreign Department of the Government of India.
Earlier he had earned reputation as an Archivist for his work in the Bombay Records Office. In his report, he made a strong plea for transferring all records of the administration of East India Company to a Central Repository.
As a result, Imperial Records Department (IRD) came into existence on 11 March 1891 which was located in Imperial Secretariat Building at Calcutta (Kolkata). Professor G.W Forrest was made its Officer in Charge. His main task was to examine, transfer, arrange and catalogue records of all the Departments and to organise a Central Library in place of various Departmental Libraries.
After G.W. Forrest, the work at Imperial Records Department (IRD) progressed well under S.C. Hill (1900), C.R. Wilson (1902), N.L. Hallward (1904), E. Denison Ross (1905), A.F. Scholfield (1915), R.A. Blaker (1919), J.M. Mitra (1920) and Rai Bahadur A.F.M. Abdul Ali (1922-1938) who were scholars as well as Records Keepers in their own right.
