Description

Documents are of great significance in the reconstruction of His- tory. Classifying these documents, we need to preserve those his- torically important documents, manuscripts, government orders and rare books. Such sources are critical for the writing of history. In comparison with other sources of history, these documents provide a good description to the researchers about the various developmental stages of an institution and its activities. Only those documents which possess permanent value are helpful for the writing of history. Karnataka State Archives is publishing two volumes under the title “Mysore Government Orders, Circulars and Notifications Pertaining to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes”. This project has been undertaken under Karnataka Government’s SCP-TSP project with the intention that research scholars from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes benefit from it. Realising the importance of education in the context of 20th century India, the Mysore kings had argued that only securing education is the path of welfare for lower castes and women. For the welfare of the exploited classes, Mysore government for a long time planned several programmes and issued many orders, notifications and circulars. These have been available at the Karnataka State Archives department and many of these orders have been selected and organised for publication. These documents are from a hundred year period (1860-1960). It may be said that such a work is being published for the first time.