{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox library | name = Sinha Library | logo = | image = | caption = | country = India | location = Patna, Bihar | coordinates = {{coord|25.613472976173625|85.13660485503883}} | type = State central library | num_branches = | established = 1924 | items_collected = Manuscripts, books, journals, newspapers, magazines, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings and manuscripts | collection_size = 1,80,000 books | legal_deposit = | req_to_access = Open to anyone with a genuine need to use the collection | budget = | director = | website = }}

'''Sinha Library''' is a public library in Patna, India. This library has over 1.8 lakh books. Sachchidananda Sinha had donated his collection of around 50,000 rare books, bearing his autograph&nbsp;— including copies of Manusmriti, Sacred Books of the East edited by Max Muller, Koran, Buddhist suttas, a copy of original Indian Constitution, works of Jawaharlal Nehru, history politics, literature, Arya Samaj, Buddhism, Hindu scriptures, and others. Some old magazines like Harijan, published by Mahatma Gandhi from 1933 to 1948, Indian People, Bihari Times, Criterion Searchlight, Leader and Aryavarta are also preserved here along with the congress proceedings since 1885 and parliamentary debates since the inception of Parliament.<ref name="neglect">{{cite web |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Sinha-library-a-victim-of-neglect/articleshow/8818930.cms |title=Sinha library a victim of neglect | publisher=The Times of India (Patna) |date=12 June 2011 |access-date=6 June 2014 |author=Parul Pandey, TNN}}</ref>

==History== The library was established in 1924 by Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha academic, writer and the first president of the constituent assembly that drafted the Indian Constitution,<ref name="forgotten" /> its inaugural function was attended by Sir Henry Wheeler, the then governor of Bihar and Orissa Province. In 1955, the library originally known as '''Shrimati Radhika Sinha Institute''' and '''Sachchidananda Sinha Library''', was taken over by the state government to be turned into a state central library.<ref name="forgotten" />

The present day reading room of the library used to be the dining hall, which was later turned into a library in the memory of his wife, Radhika Devi.<ref name="forgotten">{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091111/jsp/nation/story_11724115.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091114120949/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091111/jsp/nation/story_11724115.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 November 2009 |title=The forgotten architect of Bihar |publisher=The Telegraph (Calcutta), Patna |date=11 November 2011 |accessdate=6 June 2014 |author=NALIN VERMA}}</ref><ref name="inter" />

In this hall, Dr. Sinha used to host lunches and dinner for his friends and contemporaries, which included Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Mazharul Haque etc. Scores of Congress working committee meetings were held here with Gandhi present in all of them.<ref name="inter">{{cite interview |title=Razi Ahmed (Gandhi Sangralaya) |date=February 2014 <!--|access-date=6 June 2014--> |interviewer=Hindustan Times |location=Patna}}</ref>

Most of the relief committee meetings too held here under the chairmanship of Dr. Rajendra Prasad. It was formed after the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, which had its epicenter in Darbhanga.<ref name="inter" />

Jawaharlal Nehru had stayed here during his first visit to Patna after becoming the Prime Minister.<ref>{{cite interview |title=BK Sinha interview |date=February 2014 <!--|access-date=6 June 2014--> |interviewer=Hindustan Times |location=Patna}}</ref>

==See also== *Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library

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