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Digitisation of archival material and rare books preserved at the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Kolkata, 1878-1950
EAP1475 proposed to digitise a large number of old, rare books at the library of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj in Kolkata, India. This material…
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Fragments of Sikkim: Preserving and presenting the palace archives of a Himalayan Kingdom, 1875-1975
This project seeks to preserve, digitise and make available to academic enquiry the hitherto neglected royal archives of the former Himalayan…
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Digitisation of Sanskrit Manuscripts and Books in the State of Jammu and Kashmir
This project intends to digitise two collections of manuscripts and books in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The team will carry out work in…
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Documentation of Endangered Temple Art of Tamil Nadu
The rich cultural heritage of temple art in India is rapidly deteriorating because of vandalism, weather conditions, practices such as burning…
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Private records of some leading business families of early colonial Bengal
This project aims to explore the diverse range of material in the custody of the descendants of leading business families of Bengal. The main…
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Capital Across the Seas - documenting Cheittiar mercantile account keeping practices in 19th-20th century Indian Ocean region
When Burma, Malaya and other Southeast Asian countries were brought under British colonial rule in the early 19th century, Chettiar capital played…
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Locating and Sampling Arabic and Arabic-Malayalam Manuscripts in Kerala, South India
The project aims at contacting archives holding Arabic and Arabic-Malayalam manuscripts and lithographs. We will sample texts from two public and…
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Numbers in Business: Documenting Chettiar Mercantile Account Keeping Practices in 19th-20th century South India
The Chettiar Mercantile archive is valuable to understand the nature of pedagogic training in elementary arithmetic skills and how it actually…
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Study and documentation of endangered memorial stones and inscriptions in Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu
The project is to survey and digitally document endangered memorial stones seen in various places in four taluks in the Dharmapuri district of…
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Digital archive of north Indian classical music
The history of sound recording in India goes back more than a hundred years. Knowledge about the vast body of recorded music that has accumulated…
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Digital archive of early Bengali drama
This project will digitise the wide collection of rare and unique material of, and on, Bengali drama held by a private collector, Dr Devajit…
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Preserving more Marathi manuscripts and making them accessible - major project
Marathi is a New Indo-Aryan language with inscriptional evidence extending back to A.D. 1012 and literature beginning in the 13th century.…
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Retrieval of two major and endangered newspapers: Jugantar and Amrita Bazar Patrika
This project aims to digitally retrieve and store issues of two leading newspapers, Jugantara patrika (Calcutta, Bengali, daily: 1937 - 1980) and…
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Conservation, documentation and preservation of the knowledge of siddha medicine
The project aims to digitise two collections of siddha manuscripts: the collection of Mohana Raj (president of Akila Thiruvithancore Siddha Vaidhya…
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Representing Self and Family. Preserving early Tamil studio photography
This pilot project will document and preserve Tamil studio photography, and therefore family portraiture, since its appearance in the mid-late 19th…
