The archives would house material on Premchand, his contemporaries in the field of Hindi and Urdu literature as well as other leading present day creative writers.

The archives aims to collect for posterity, published and unpublished manuscripts, letters, photographs, journals, newspapers or their clippings, books, translations in Indian as well as foreign languages, critical works and all such historically important material related to Premchand, and other literary figures whose contribution is important to the making and study of modern India. Efforts will be made to procure and preserve valuable personal collections from Hindi/Urdu writers for future study and research.