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The
Mehrangarh Museum enjoys an extended research facility in its manuscript
library, The Maharaja Maan Singh Pustak Prakash. The library, within the
fort itself, houses a rich collection of manuscripts from different periods
on a variety of subjects; in all about three thousand Sanskrit, and two
thousand Hindi and Rajasthani manuscripts besides five thousand 'bahis'
or accounts and other documents.
The 'bahis' contain very useful and interesting information about the
prevailing customs, etiquette and lifestyle of the Royal Household down
the ages. Some of the 'bahis' concentrate on the lives of the royal ladies
within the walls of the Zenana.
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Over the years the Maharaja Maan Singh Pustak Prakash, incorporated into
the Mehrangarh Museum Trust in 1977, has organized a number of seminars
and conferences on various aspects of history and culture. The library,
Pustak Prakash, itself provides excellent facilities for research scholars.
A number of important papers and books have also been published by the
MMSPP. Indeed, under the late Shri Narayan Singh Bhati, the well known
scholar of Rajasthani language and history, the institute assumed a national
reputation.
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