Rajasthan State Archives enjoys a special position amongst the various Archives of the country primarily on account of the indigenous character of its holdings. The present State Archive is a successive body of the various General Record Offices and similar record agencies of the former states of Rajasthan. The State Archives was set-up as early as 1955 having branch offices in all the former covenanting States of Rajasthan including the one in the former Chief Commissioner’s province of Ajmer-Merwara.The primary duties of the State Archives may be said to be two fold viz:
1: To preserve the records in its custody and to supply information from them to Government department, judicary and the public whenever required, and
2: To render them accessible to the scholars in conformity with the rules framed by the Government of Rajasthan for the purposes of historical research.