Archive
Historical and modern photography, the Living Archive Project, royal collection documentation, institutional archives and heritage records — preserving what time would erase.
Selected Photographs
A curated selection from the archive — architecture, portraiture, landscape, and documentary photography.
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The Living Archive Project
Heritage is not what is built in stone — it is what is preserved in memory. THE ROYAL GALLERYS Living Archive is a permanent, publicly accessible repository of photographs, documents, oral histories and cultural records. Built to last for centuries. Open to scholars, families and the public.
The Living Archive
Our flagship preservation initiative. Over 50,000 photographs, documents, maps and oral histories digitized and catalogued — the largest private repository of Indian heritage materials in the world.
Active — continuously acquiringRoyal Portrait Series
A photographic survey of India's remaining royal families — commissioned portraits, candid documentation, and interviews capturing the custodians of a thousand years of tradition at the threshold of modernity.
In progress — 14 families documentedLost Monuments Project
Documentation of heritage sites at risk — detailed photographic surveys, architectural drawings, and oral histories collected before these structures are lost to neglect, development, or climate change.
Phase II — 127 sites surveyedTextile & Craft Archive
Comprehensive documentation of India's textile traditions — weaving patterns, dyeing techniques, embroidery styles — organized by region, community and technique. A resource for scholars, designers and artisans.
Building — 3,200 specimens cataloguedYour Heritage Belongs in the Record
If you hold photographs, documents, letters or oral histories that tell the story of heritage — whether personal, institutional or cultural — we invite you to contribute to the Living Archive.
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