The Ministry of Culture is the Indian government ministry charged with preservation and promotion of art and culture of India. .
Prahlad Singh Patel is the current Minister of Culture. Recently the government has established the National Mission on Libraries India under this ministry.
Organisation
- Attached offices
- Archaeological Survey of India
- Central Secretariat Library
- National Archives of India
- Subordinate offices
- Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata
- Central Reference Library, Kolkata
- National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property, Lucknow
- National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
- National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
- National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru
- National Library of India, Kolkata
- National Museum, New Delhi
- Autonomous organisations
- National Mission for Manuscripts, Delhi
- Allahabad Museum, Allahabad
- Asiatic Society, Kolkata
- Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Jammu and Kashmir
- Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS)
- Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, New Delhi
- Delhi Public Library, Delhi
- Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi
- Indian Museum, Kolkata
- Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi
- Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manava Sangrahalaya, Bhopal
- Kalakshetra Foundation, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai
- Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna
- Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata
- National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata
- National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology (NMIHACM), Delhi
- National School of Drama, New Delhi
- Nav Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda, Bihar
- Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi (Teen Murti Bhavan)
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata, registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961
- Raza Library, Rampur
- Sahitya Akademi (SA), New Delhi
- Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad
- Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA), New Delhi
- Saraswathi Mahal Library, Tanjore
- Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
- Zonal Cultural Centers (based on Cultural Zones of India)
- Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata
- North Central Zone Cultural Centre, Allahabad
- North East Zone Cultural Centre
- North Zone Cultural Centre
- South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur
- South Zone Culture Centre, Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu
- West Zone Cultural Centre
Ministers of Culture
| No. | Name | Term of office | Political Party | Prime Minister | ||
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| 1 | Ananth Kumar | 13 October 1999 | 1 September 2001 | Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 2 | Maneka Gandhi (MoS, Independent Charge) |
1 September 2001 | 18 November 2001 | Independent (National Democratic Alliance) |
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| 3 | Jagmohan | 18 November 2001 | 22 May 2004 | Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
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| 4 | S. Jaipal Reddy | 23 May 2004 | 29 January 2006 | Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance) |
Manmohan Singh | |
| 5 | Ambika Soni | 29 January 2006 | 23 May 2009 | |||
| 6 | Manmohan Singh | 23 May 2009 | 19 January 2011 | |||
| 7 | Kumari Selja | 19 January 2011 | 28 October 2012 | |||
| 8 | Chandresh Kumari Katoch | 28 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | |||
| 9 | Shripad Naik (MoS, Independent Charge) |
26 May 2014 | 12 November 2014 | Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
Narendra Modi | |
| 10 | Mahesh Sharma (MoS, Independent Charge) |
12 November 2014 | 30 May 2019 | |||
| 11 | Prahlad Singh Patel (MoS, Independent Charge) |
30 May 2019 | ||||