NEW DELHI: Surprising as it may sound, the National Archives of India — the central repository of the government’s “non-classified” historical records — does not have records of India’s three big wars of 1962, 1965, and 1971 and also the Green Revolution. Several ministries and central government departments have not shared their records with the NAI for years. Even the defence ministry has not shared files with NAI since 1960.
This, however, does not imply that the government has no files/records on such matters; it’s only that they have not been transferred to the NAI’s custody. The defence ministry has sent only 476 files since independence till the beginning of this year.
