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The British felt that all important documents and letters needed to be carefully preserved. So they set up record rooms attached to all administrative institutions. The village tahsildar's office, the collectorate, the commissioner's office, the provincial
secretariats, the lawcourts- all had their record rooms. Specialised institutions like archives and museums were also established to preserve important records. In the early years of the nineteenth century these documents were carefully copied out and beautifully written by calligraphists. Later, with the spread of printing, multiple copies of these records were printed