List of Important Libraries in India with Location and Year of Establishment

Year of Establishment	Name of Library	Location
1774	Rampur Raza Library	Uttar Pradesh
1804	Asiatic Society Library	Bombay (Mumbai)
1835	Calcutta Public Library	Kolkata
1860	Ø  Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Library	Pune
1890	Connemara Public Library	Chennai
1891	Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library	Patna
1918	Tanjore Maharaja Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library / Saraswathi Mahal Library	Thanjavur (Tanjore), Tamil Nadu
1947	National Medical Library of India	New Delhi
1948	Declaration of Imperial Library (Calcutta) as National Library of India.	Calcutta (Kolkata)
1951	Delhi Public Library	Delhi
1964	National Science Library, India	New Delhi
1979	National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped	Dehradun

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