Punjab Archives

Most of the collection is in great public demand so it was decided that the documents should be digitized through collaboration between PITB and Archives & Libraries Wing, S&GAD.

In the first phase five hundred thousand (500,000) documents, which are to be preserved, catalogued and digitized, are selected from the following collections: The above-mentioned records are either hand written or in manuscript form.

The project has been initiated with this conviction that all the documents within the possession of Archives will be digitized and available online to the scholars and general public of the world.

The oldest official record kept in the Punjab Government Archives is related to the Mughal and Sikh era mostly in Persian language.

The very rare official newspaper of Sikh period containing daily proceedings of the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his successors from 1835 to 1849, are available in Punjab Archives.

Present-day KPK was then a part of Punjab, and all the record relating to the Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan Divisions and the Tribal Agencies, before the creation of a separate province in 1902, are also preserved here.

Therefore this record office is a rich repository of historical documents relating to the North Western part of the South Asian Sub-continent from 1809 onwards.

With the settlement of affair and political peace, the regular offices were set up and the government work started under the proper departments as elsewhere in India.

With the settlement of affair and political peace the regular offices were set up and the government work started under the proper departments as elsewhere in India.

Present-day KPK was then a part of Punjab, and all the records relating to the Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan Divisions and the Tribal Agencies before the creation of a separate province for this area are also preserved here.

The record office is, therefore, a rich repository of historical documents relating to the North Western portion of the South Asian sub-continent from 1809 onwards.