The Center for Art & Archeology

The AIIS Center for Art and Archaeology (CA&A), established in 1965, is an international leader in the documentation of Indic art and architecture.

Mission Statement

The Center for Art & Archaeology (CA&A), a leading archive and library on visual arts & architecture of the Indian subcontinent, deploys its resources to facilitate scholarly research and to provide the broadest possible access to a diverse national and international audience. Central to this mission in the 21st century is advancing the impact of CA&A resources through the digital transformation of its archives and research publications and ensuring an expansion of its holdings to more fully reflect the subcontinent’s forms of visual expression, as well as creating a globally accessible digital resource.

Resources

CA&A maintains images, maps and plans for more than 7000 monuments and ancient buildings. These resources were primarily created by CA&A professional staff, but also include materials contributed by research scholars. The archives hold photography and papers of leaders in the field including Fredrick and Catherine Asher, Carmel Berkson, Grace Morley and Walter Spink. In addition, the archives house surveys of 350 museum collections in India, commissioned and funded by central and state governments and documented by CA&A staff.

In total, CA&A houses more than 2,00,000 images of Indic art and architecture. Digital images from this collection are available for scholarly publications and an online presence is maintained at the Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds. An extensive collection of images from CA&A collection is also available at Artstor and the Digital South Asia Library.

CA&A also maintains a major research library focusing on art and architecture in the subcontinent. This open-stack facility houses 75,000 books, journals and maps. The bibliographic catalog is available online. 

Contact Information:

The Center for Art & Archaeology

Located in Gurugram, the CA&A welcomes scholars and students to the Archive and Library, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm [click here for directions ].22, Sector-32, Institutional Area Gurugram-122 001 Haryana

Telephone: 91-124-2381424 or 91-124-2381536 Fax: 91-124-2380843

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Contact: Dr. Vandana Sinha, Director