Indian Institute Library
The Indian Institute Library opened in 1886. It is a dependent library of the Bodleian Library, the main library of the University. It specialises in the history and culture of South Asia, especially the Himalayas and Tibet. The library was formerly located in the Indian Institute building, but is now close by, on the top floor of the New Bodleian Library. Along with the library, the institute contained lecture rooms and a museum. Some contents of the museum are now present in the Ashmolean. The original Indian Institute building is now the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford, the History Faculty having moved to the Old Boys' School on George Street and its library to the Bodleian site.
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