Archaeological Survey of India - Publications

Publications

Archeological Survey of India started publishing all the results of their tours from 1862-63 onwards. A new series entitled "New Imperial Series" was launched in 1874 and continued up to 1933. They contain exhaustive research on antiquarian remains. Annual Reports were started publishing from 1902 onwards. "Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India", first appeared in 1919 and the latest (98th) in 2003.

One of the publications dated 1922 is the Guide to the Buddhist Ruins of Sarnath written by the later director of the Survey Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni which was reprinted by Antiquarian Book House, Delhi/Varanasi in 1982/83.

• "Ancient India": the Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India was started in 1946. The journal was revived, after a gap of 45 years, in 2012. The new series of Ancient India was published as part of the ASI's 150th anniversary celebrations. The journal was edited and printed by Goodearth Publications.
• "Architectural Survey of Temples": The monograph on Indian Temple architecture is also published. ASI has also initiated to prepare and publish an "Inventory of Monuments and Sites of National Importance" during 1997. It contains details of monuments protected by the Government of India.

Their most important epigraphical publication is "Epigraphia Indica". It was first published in 1892 and 42 volumes have been published so far. The "Annual Report on Indian Epigraphy" has been brought out from 1887 till 1995-96. They contain reports on the epigraphical discoveries made each year. Inscriptions of various dynasties were also published under the series "Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum". "South Indian Inscriptions" and "Annual Report of South Indian Epigraphy" contains details on inscriptions of South India.