The National Mission for Manuscripts (NAMAMI) is an autonomous organisation under

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, Government of India, established to survey, locate and conserve Indian manuscripts, with an aim to create national resource base for manuscripts, for enhancing their access, awareness and use for educational purposes. The Mission was initiated in February 2003, by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India and

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(IGNCA) is the nodal agency for the execution of this project. It creates bibliographic databases of Indian manuscripts and is involved in the conservation and

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of the manuscripts.

Overview

The organisation works in the field of restoration and conservation Indian manuscripts, and their digitisation, to promote access and scholarship through research and publication. It has also established a national network of institutions and manuscript repositories, including Manuscript Resource Centres (MRC-s), Manuscript Conservation Centres (MCC-s), Manuscript Partner Centres (MPC-s) and Manuscript Conservation Partner Centres (MCPC-s), spread across the nation. It has also established ''Kritisampada'', the National Database of Manuscripts, a digital archive at its website. The Mission also got a Rigveda manuscripts preserved at the

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, Pune, where it runs a 'Manuscripts Resource and Conservation Centre', included in UNESCO’S,

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Register in 2007. In October 2010, the Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Library (Central Library), BHU in association with the Mission, held a national workshop on manuscript conservation at the library.

Manuscript Conservation Centres (MCCs)

The Mission runs a network of 32 conservation units across the India, known as Manuscript Conservation Centres (MCCs), divided according to geographical zones.Manuscript Conservation Centres
NMM.

North

* Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Leh *

(IGNCA), New Delhi * Department of Language and Culture, Shimla * The Himalayan Society for Heritage and Art Conservation, Nainital * Vrindavan Research Institute,

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Rampur Raza Library The Rampur Raza Library (''Rāmpur Razā Kitāb Khāna'') located in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India is a repository of Indo-Islamic cultural heritage and a treasure-house of knowledge established in the last decades of the 18th century. It was bu ...

, Rampur * Nagarjuna Buddhist Foundation, Gorakhpur * Indian Conservation Institute, Lucknow * Visweshvarananda Biswabandhu Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies, Hoshiarpur * Central Library,

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU) IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/), is a Collegiate university, collegiate, Central university (India), central, and Re ...

, Banaras

South

* Oriental Research Institute, Sri Venkateswara University,

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* Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, Telangana *

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Chitrakala Parishath Art Conservation Centre,

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

, Karnataka * Tamil Nadu Government Museum,

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Tamil Nadu, the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and territories of India, Indian state. The largest city ...

, Tamil Nadu * Karnataka State Archives, Bangalore, Karnataka * Tanjore Maharaja Serfoji's Saraswati Mahal Library, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu * Centre for Heritage Studies Hill Palace Museum,

Thripunithura Thrippunithura or Tripunithura (), is a prominent historical and residential region in the City of Kochi in Kerala, India. Located about 7 km (4 mi) from the city centre, Tripunithura was the capital of the erstwhile Kingdom of Cochin ...

, Kerala * Regional Conservation Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala * State Archives and Research Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana

East

* Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna * Sarasvati, Bhadrak * Sri Dev Kumar Jain Oriental research Institute, Arrah * Manuscript Library,

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, Kolkata, West Bengal *

Orissa Art Conservation Centre,

Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar (; ) is the capital and largest city of the States and territories of India, Indian state of Odisha. The region, especially the old town, was historically often depicted as ''Ekamra Kshetra'' (area (''kshetra'') adorned with mango tr ...

, Odisha * AITIHYA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha * Sambalpur University, Burla, Odisha * Krishna Kanta Handiqui Library,

Gauhati University Gauhati University, also known as GU, is a collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assembly. It is the oldest ...

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, Assam * Manipur State Archives, Imphal, Manipur *

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, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh

West

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* Mahaveer Digamber Jain Pandulipi Samrakshan Kendra,

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, Rajasthan *

Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, abbreviated L. D. Museum, is a museum of Indian sculptures, bronzes, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, miniature paintings, woodwork, bead work and ancient and contemporary coins in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Histor ...

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (p ...

, Gujarat *

(BORI), Pune, Maharashtra

Central

* Scindia Oriental Research Institute (SORI), Ujjain

Manuscript Studies

* Basic Level Courses on Manuscriptology and Palaeography * Advanced Level Workshop on Manuscriptology and Palaeography * Research Fellowships (Gurukula Fellowships)

References

External links

Official Website of National Mission for Manuscripts

''Bharatiya Kriti Sampada'', the National Database of Manuscripts
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