The multilingual library of the Ashram contains approximately 50,000 books. The collection focuses on biographical, historical, philosophical and political studies on life and thought of Gandhiji. The library also contains a significant collection of studies pertaining to history, politics, society and culture of modern India. A significant feature of the library is collection of studies relating to principal associates of Gandhiji. The library has a special section called the Mahadev Desai Collection.
Time: 10:00 am to 05:00 pm Monday to Saturday
This is non-lending, reference library.
Salient Facilities:
- Computer assisted reading facility: Ashram library has good collection of rare & old books which cannot be issued in physical form due to its fragile condition. Ashram has started digitizing them for its library so that readers may be facilitated reading such interesting collection.
There are about 800 library books digitized. These includes Gandhiji’s autobiography in 24 languages, Mahadevbhai Desai Ni Diary (8 in English, 10 in Hindi, 23 in Gujarati), Vinoba Sahitya (21 Volumes in Hindi), Mahatma Gandhi by Pyarelal (10 Volumes in English) Mahatma by D.G. Tendulkar (8 Volumes), Bapu na Patra (Gujarati: 10 Volumes, Hindi: 8 Volumes) and Dakshin Africa Ni Ladat (5 Volumes in Gujarati) etc. These can be read on high resolution touch screens. There are about 9 such screens. - Isolated Reading Zone: Library is facilitated with a reading room for the usage of casual and regular users.
- Research facilities: Library is equipped with facilities including computers, cupboard, print, copy etc., that researcher may need for their work
- Searchable Library Catalogue: Searchable Library Catalogue is directly made available to Library Users. This will help them explore library in their own way. Library catalogue with search facility is made available on Sabarmati Ashram’s (www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org => The Museum => Archives & Library) website. The catalogue can also be downloaded also from there.
- Information Kiosk: Information Kiosk helps users to get information about Ashram and library collection.
For further information and library membership contact:
Hashmukh Prajapati <Phone> <Email>
Dimple Vyas
Krupa Desai