When the Programme of Cultural Cooperation (PoCC) was signed between India and the UK in May 2025, it acknowledged that cultural heritage knows no borders.
Nepal scholar Shanker Thapa handed over digitised copies of over 1,200 Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts to IIC’s international research division. He had to coax many out of people’s shrines.
"These manuscripts may be under someone's ownership, but these belong to the country. It's a part of Indian heritage," said Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat at Gyan Bharatam International conference in Delhi.
'The Romance of Alexander', a Byzantine-era manuscript is being brought specially for an India-Greek conference to be held next week. It aims to broaden relations between the countries.
Samhita, a project of the International Research division at Delhi’s India International Centre estimates about 200,000 Indic manuscripts spread across 200 centres.
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