Visit to
Haribhakti Archives Center
Dr. Adhya Bharti Saxena is Professor and Head of Department of History, Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India. She specializes in urban history in South Asia and working on the themes of the rural-urban continuum.
Avni Pattani from the Pattani Archives visited the Haribhakti Archives Center at the History Department of Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) on 12th January 2020.
Dr. Aadhya Saxena along with her student took Avni Pattani and her aunt Kalpana Bhatt (great-granddaughter of Sir Pattani) through the processes of digitization of manuscripts from the Haribhakti Collection and showed the digitization set up at their department.
An insightful evening spent at MSU followed by meeting with Mr. Gopal Haribhakti - the descendant of Haribhaktis who served as Bankers to the Peshwa & Gaekwad rulers, and his wife Swati Haribhakti; learning the know-how of setting up the family archives.
Grateful to Dr. Aadhya Saxena, her team at MSU for their time and insights into archiving processes, and Mr. Gopal and Mrs. Swati Haribhakti for sharing the inception story of their family archives.
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