Mumbai's Karimi library preserves centuries-old Hindu scriptures in Urdu

Mumbai's Karimi library, which is owned by the 147-year-old Anjuman-e-Islam organisation, has carefully preserved centuries-old Urdu and Persian translations of several Hindu religious scriptures, including the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Anjuman-e-Islam is a 147-year-old institution, which runs as many as 97 educational institutions across the state. The educational institutions have more than one lakh students, belonging to different religions, on their roll with three thousand teaching staff. A large number of former students of the institutions are now working and settled in different parts of the world.