India has the largest collection of manuscripts in the world. Millions of manuscripts are lying in libraries, museums and private collections in all over India. All are the valuable sources of knowledge especially of ancient Indian history and culture. Various type of scripts have been used for writing the manuscripts which are – Devanagari, Tiglari, Sarada, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Grantha, Tamil, Nandinagari, old Newari, Persian and Arabic etc.
In the second half of the 18th century, a few British officers such as Sir William Jones (1746-1794), Sir Robert Chambers (1774-1779), Colin Mackenzie (1782–1806) took a deep interest for studying the Indian culture. They started collecting manuscripts, inscriptions and others antiquities for preserving, cataloguing and research. Later, in the last half of the 19th century, the Government of India deputed few scholars for collecting the manuscripts in different parts of India. Since that time, the mission was started for collecting, preserving, cataloguing and editing the manuscripts on in and outside India.
The book is a collection of thoughtful articles from scholars and writers enumerates the different aspects of the Manuscript as well as the Great Indian Culture. This book will give some thoughtful insight to the reader in various aspects.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Projit Kumar Palit
Projit Kumar Palit (b. 1967) received his post-graduate degree in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He specializes in various aspects of North-Eastern India, and received Ph.D. degree. He had also dexterously executed a number of research projects sponsored by the The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh; The Ministry of Culture, Government of India and Tribal Research Institute, Government of Tripura. His various writings have been published in several reputed journals both in and outside India and has a vast experience of attending a number of National and International seminars. He has worked as a Post-doctoral Research Scholar on History of Art in Tripura, at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata, and was also associated with the editorial work of most prestigious publication of this Institute, i.e., the Cultural Heritage, Art – Vol. VII, and – Modern India, Vol. VIII. He has a wide range of teaching experience and also served as the Principal of Mohananda B.Ed. College. Presently , he is working as Lecturer in History, the Belonia Government College, Tripura.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Susmita Palit Saha
Susmita Palit Saha has been working at Central Library, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan since 1997. She obtained her MA degree from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan and BLIS & BEd degree from the University of Burdawn, West Bengal. Presently she is working as in-charge Librarian at Patha-Bhavana Library, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.
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