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Advances in cheap photography (such as rotary bromide prints and photostats, as well as micro-filming) have brought the most jealously guarded documents of European libraries within the reach of poor private scholars in India, and libraries containing such replicas are being built up in India, which was beyond the dream of our workers in 1901. Persistent search for half a century, mostly by our own people, has led to the discovery of many important historical manuscripts unknown before, so that Elliot and Dowson has ceased to be our sole stay. The India Government's Survey Department has given invaluable—but little utilised—aid to Indian historical study, by the publication of accurate and detailed maps of every part of India.