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03 Sep 2007
National Mission for Manuscripts
National Mission for Manuscripts, New Delhi, India
Self-description:
"The National Mission for Manuscripts was established in February 2003, by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India. A unique project in its programme and mandate, the Mission seeks to unearth and preserve the vast manuscript wealth of India. India possesses an estimate of five million manuscripts, probably the largest collection in the world. These cover a variety of themes, textures and aesthetics, scripts, languages, calligraphies, illuminations and illustrations. Together, they constitute the 'memory' of India's history, heritage and thought. These manuscripts lie scattered across the country and beyond, in numerous institutions as well as private collections, often unattended and undocumented. The National Mission for Manuscripts aims to locate, document, preserve and render these accessible -- to connect India's past with its future, its memory with its aspirations."
Site contents: * Manuscripts in focus;
* Calendar of events;
* Kritisampada: The National Database of Manuscripts [search for manuscripts by Title, Author, Script, Language, Subject or Material, as well as by their State/District Repository - ed.];
* Photo gallery (manuscripts on Paper, Palm Leaf, Cloth, Bamboo Leaves];
* About us;
* Indian manuscripts;
* Partners;
* Downloads (Documentation of manuscripts, Manuscript studies, Conservation, Digitization, Publication, Outreach);
* FAQs.
URL http://www.namami.org/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate info./Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100