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| Keywords: State Library at Baroda in the 1890s.jpg en Photograph of the State Library at Baroda Gujarat from the Curzon Collection taken by an unknown photographer during the 1890s The library was built in 1876 and designed by Major Charles Mant 1840-81 in the Indo-Saracenic style He was a pioneer of the style and used it in his designs for other civic and state buildings in Baroda such as the Countess of Dufferin hospital and his masterpiece the Lakshmi Vilas Palace The library is one of the public offices contained within the Juni Kothi or old fort It predates the Baroda Library movement initiated in c 1910 by the Gaekwar Maharaja Sayaji Rao III ruled 1875-1939 which founded the Central Library a system of state-aided libraries reading rooms travelling libraries and the first library school in India s 1890 http //www oldindianphotos in/2010_07_04_archive html author other versions Custom license marker 2014 11 26 PD-100 Vadodara in the 1890s Uploaded with UploadWizard Libraries in Gujarat British Library Photo 430 Curzon Collection | ||||
