The Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) today is a leading
institute of the country actively engaged in basic and applied research in
Geomagnetism and allied areas of Geophysics, Atmospheric, and Space Physics and
Plasma Physics. It started out as a successor to the Colaba Magnetic
Observatory, set up in 1826, where the first regular magnetic observatory
in the country was established in 1841.

  IIG became an autonomous research institute in 1971, and is now under the

Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.