Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library

Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library
Location	Patna, Bihar, India, India
Type	National library
Established	29 October 1891 (1891-10-29)[1]
Collection
Items collected	Manuscripts, books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints and drawings etc
Size	2,082,904 (printed books) 21,136 (manuscripts) (5,000,000 total items)
Legal deposit	Yes, Institution of National Importance by Act of Parliament, 26 December 1969
Access and use
Access requirements	Open to anyone with a genuine need to use the collection
Other information
Director	Shayesta Bedar, (since January, 2019)
Website	http://kblibrary.bih.nic.in/

Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library is one of the national libraries of India,^[2] located in Patna, Bihar.^[3] It was opened to public on 29 October 1891 by Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh with 4,000 manuscripts, of which he inherited 1,400 from his father Maulvi Mohammed Bakhsh. It is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and is governed by a Board with the Governor of Bihar as its ex officio Chairman, and is known for its rare collection of Persian and Arabic manuscripts. It also hosts paintings made during the Rajput and Mughal eras of India.

It is also a designated 'Manuscript Conservation Centre' (MCC) under the National Mission for Manuscripts.^[4]