Since its founding, Gita Press has maintained Visitor Books: handwritten records of distinguished guests, their impressions, and their blessings. These books are a living historical archive spanning India's entire post-colonial history.

The Visitor Books contain entries from India's founding-era leaders and independence movement figures, from revered saints and spiritual masters of every tradition, from distinguished scholars and litterateurs, and from generations of public figures. Each entry is handwritten, a personal message rather than a typed formality.

The most precious entry is that of Dr. Rajendra Prasad, India's first President, made on 29 April 1955 when he came to inaugurate the Leela Chitra Mandir. The visitor books at the time of this entry would already have had decades of entries from the independence movement era.

These books are not displayed for commercial purposes or for institutional promotion. They are preserved as part of the trust's historical record, and as testimony to the regard in which Gita Press has been held by India's most distinguished citizens across a century.