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 or signed personally — never a typed formality.
A selection of 32 entries is reproduced below. Click any entry to view the scan in full and read the visitor's bio in the side panel. Use the arrow keys, ←/→, to move between entries.
Prime Ministers of India
Statesmen, Ministers & Public Figures
Spiritual & Cultural Leaders
About this archive
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. 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.