The Indian Culture portal hosts a repository of rare books from various national and state libraries under the Ministry of Culture, India. It has a large collection of antiquarian or rarebooks in the form of digital books. The visitors can browse through a large number of vintage and ancient books from national and state libraries to read online. The book search engine in the.Indian Culture portal allows readers to search and look for the oldest books in India in multiple digital formats that are easy to open and read. These rare-books can be found in digital formats such as pdf and flip books which makes the reading experience a delight for the readers. Many of the rare books also have a feature to search through the text.
There are numerous answers to the question, what is a rare book? The traditional definition of a rare book is any book which has an enhanced value because its demand exceeds the supply, usually because of its importance, scarcity, age, condition, physical, and aesthetic properties, association, or subject matter. However, there is no clear-cut definition of what makes a book a rare book. Different libraries and booksellers employ different criteria to define a rarebook. The terms 'rare', 'antiquarian', and 'old' are not clearly defined or indeed distinguished and are used
interchangeably to refer to such books.
Author: Robinson, Mary Charlotte, Charke
Publisher:Printed for Hunt and Clarke, London
Copyright: N/A
Author: Sahai, Govind
Publisher:Rajkamal Publications, Delhi
Copyright:1947
Author: Mookerjee, Ajit
Publisher:Indian Institute of Art in Industry, Calcutta
Copyright:1965
Author: Vavra, Jaroslav R.
Publisher:Artia, Prague
Copyright:1954
Author: Creswell, K. A. C.
Publisher:The American University at Cairo Press, London
Copyright:1961
Author: Dumasia, Naoroji M.
Publisher:Times of India Press, Bombay
Copyright:1903
Author: Hunter, W. W.
Publisher:Morrison and Gibe,Edinburgh
Copyright:1881
Author: Wilson Hunter, William
Publisher:Oxford,London
Copyright:1895
Author: Annand, Alexander
Publisher:
Copyright:1832
Author: Atul Chandra Guha
Publisher:Calcutta, Thacker Spink and Co.
Issued:1915
Author: Bharucha, Ervad Sheriarji Dadabhai
Publisher:D.B. Taraporevala Sons, Bombay
Copyright:1928
Author: Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce
Publisher:Clarendon Press, Oxford
Copyright:1922
Author: Cochran, Alexander Smith
Publisher:Columbia University Press, New York
Copyright:1914
Author: Devi Prasada
Publisher:Allahabad, N.W.P. and Oudh Government Press
Issued:1882
Author: Devi Prasada
Publisher:Allahabad, N.W.P. and Oudh Government Press
Issued:1880