The Collections

Six doors into the past

The library, the journal, the inscriptions, the lectures, the coins and the archives — one search will reach them all.

The Library

92,975 catalogued works — rare gazetteers, Indological scholarship, journals and reference collections, built since 1909.

Not on the shelf? Request a book and the librarians respond.

The other collections

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Inscriptions in 3D

Bengaluru's stones, scanned and studied — the Akshara Bhandara corpus.

386 issues

The Journal archive

QJMS Volume 1 (1909) to 117 — enter the journal.

324 recordings

The Lectures

Six years of talks — browse the archive.

Catalogued

The Coins

The numismatics collection, joining as its catalogue comes online.

220 photographs · 118 clippings

Picture Archives

The Society's life in photographs and a century of newsprint.

Since 1917

Daly Memorial Hall

The building itself — plan a visit.