Digital Library of India

The Digital Library of India: The Digital Library of India (DLI) has scanned and preserved over 250,000 books in many languages, of which around 13,000 are in Sanskrit. This project is coodinated by the IISc and has over 20 partner centers across different specialties. Read an article Digital Libraries in India for some details of the project.

The Government of India has spent a large amount of resources in scanning and preserving valuable books through this project. The principal collections are housed at the IISc, Bangalore and at the IIIT, Hyderabad. You can either download books directly as mentioned below or you can read them page by page in a browser. To read books in a browser, you should download the AlternaTIFF plugin on Windows computers Given below are the main DLI collections. Each houses a different set of books. You can find lists of books in each collection and catalogs of the current availability of scans of each book, in the links next to each collection.