Serving the people of the city for more than a hundred years now, the Central Library of Baroda was conceived in 1906, when Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III introduced compulsory and free primary education in the Baroda State. Doing so the insightful ruler placed his territory far in advance of British India and became the first ruler to do so. The Visionary…
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The Baroda State Library, now known as the Jaisinhrao Library is the most beautiful and the most silent building one can find amidst the frenzy of government buildings of the Kothi Compound. This library was basically the precursor of the Library Movement in India started by Maharaja sayajirao Gaekwad III. A new home for an old Library : The library…