In the Asifiya school, the magnificent monument of the Nizam era, now known as the State Central Library, Hyderabad, an entire floor is reserved only for newspapers. Where millions of newspapers have been kept for more than half a century.
General entry is prohibited here, but the fate of the newspapers can be guessed as the newspapers have been lying on iron racks and on the floor for years to perish.
All the corridors of this floor are lined with huge racks of old newspapers, mostly unusable.
Some are so decayed that they turn into piles of sand at the slightest touch.
According to Assistant Librarian Kesri Hanuman, the library covers an area of 72,247 square yards and has more than five lakh books and magazines. Also there are millions of used newspapers.
He explains that the entire upper floor has been reserved for newspapers and has been closed to public entry to prevent further damage to the newspapers.
Kesri Hanuman explains that newspapers are now too decayed to be preserved, so for some years old and rare newspapers have been scanned and preserved in digital records.
“Hundreds of old newspapers were digitized under this, including those published in foreign states.”
According to Kesri Hanuman, some of the pamphlets published from Lahore are still preserved. Papers published from Pakistan (undivided) were called and read by the regime of that time.
According to the famous writer Naseeruddin Hashmi, the library Asafia was first established by Nawab Imad-ul-Mulk Maulvi Syed Hussain Bilgrami and Mulla Abdul Qayyum jointly in 1891. With the help of the Asifia government, it was expanded and then declared a public library.
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He says that the purpose of this library was to provide educational opportunities for scholars, researchers, research scholars and the public. Hence from the beginning Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Sanskrit written and printed books were bought here.
From 1940, Asafia’s pen started collecting books in the three national languages of Telugu, Marathi and Kannada as well as in Hindi. From this era newspapers of all languages were also bought.’
This library started from Abid Road, which is now a post office, but the last Nizam, Nawab Mir Usman Ali Khan Asif Jah Sabe, built a charming magnificent building for the library on the banks of Musa river and in 1936, the library is a modern building. I moved. This Musa river has now become a canal.
After the fall of Hyderabad, its name was changed from Maktaba Asafia to State Central Library in 1955.
Assistant librarian Kesri Hanuman told Independent Urdu that this building built by Nizam Raja has thousands of rare books in Arabic and Urdu which are no longer available even in the Arab countries themselves.
He says that the doors and walls of this library create a special kind of atmosphere, which makes one feel very secure in studying anything here.
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