Prominent Literary Collection in the Archives

The Archives houses private papers, photographs and personal collections of eminent personalities like:

• Maulana Shaukat Ali (1873 - 1936)
• Maulana Mohamed Ali Jauhar ( 1878 - 1931)
• Dr. M.A. Ansari (1880 - 1936)
• Munshi Premchand (1880 - 1936)
• Dr. Zakir Husain (1897 - 1969)
• Dr. Hamid Hasan Qadri ( 1887 - 1964 )
• Asaf Ali (1888 - 1953)
• Pandit Banarsidas Chaturvedi ( 1892 -1985 ),
• Qurratulain Hyder (1926 - 2007)
• Prof. Qamar Rais (1932 - 2009)
• Acharya Nishant Ketu (1939 - )
• Prof. Sunita Jain (1941 - )
• Dr. A. M. Zutshi ‘Gulzar Dehlvi’ ( 1925 - ) Expected soon

Material Collection on Munshi Premchand

Munshi Premchand the novelist and short story writer was the most popular Urdu / Hindi writer, secular icon and an intellectual who used literature as a potent tool for social reform. He introduced a new dimension to Hindi language by bringing in real life experience of the marginalized and the down trodden. His realistic approach set a trend for future writers. Premchand has been extensively studied, researched and translated. The Jamia's Premchand Archives & Literary Centre is engaged in :

• Collecting all published works of Premchand written in Urdu and Hindi.
• Collecting all publications on him including translations of his works in different languages of India and of the world.
• Collecting original or true copies of his published and un-published letters to different people and different institutions.
• Collect photographs, certificates, diaries, personal belongings, and every thing else that would facilitate understanding and study of the writer.
• Index all dissertations on Premchand at M. Phil or Ph.D. level in different universities.
• Index and collect all papers published on Munshi Premchand and his writings in different journals and newspapers.
• Collect all Special Issues of different magazine / journal dedicated to Munshi Premchand.
• List all seminars and conferences that have been organized on Premchand.
• Collect all audio-video material on Premchand's work, eg. films, theatrical adaptations, audios / narrations of Premchand's stories.
• Build an oral Archives on Premchand with interviews of leading scholars who have extensively researched and studied him, of lectures in his memory and all deliberations during different symposias.
• Collect all illustrations of his stories.
• Have programmes to represent Premchand's stories and characters in different contemporary medium of art for better understanding of his text.
• Encourage translation of Premchand's stories and novels in different Indian and foreign languages.
• Support future research on Premchand with the available archival resource.