Difference between revisions of "KCHR:Digitizing Kerala’s Past"
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* <p>History Walk programmes enabled thousands of school children across the state to walk down the memory lane of their older generation to document understand the landscape, history and intellectual legacies of their locality. | * <p>History Walk programmes enabled thousands of school children across the state to walk down the memory lane of their older generation to document understand the landscape, history and intellectual legacies of their locality. | ||
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| − | * <p> History of Vaniyamkulam village has been published in the name of ‘Vaniyamkulam Panchayath Vijaneeyam’. Extended academic and organizational support to Local Self | + | * <p> History of Vaniyamkulam village has been published in the name of ‘Vaniyamkulam Panchayath Vijaneeyam’. Extended academic and organizational support to Local Self Governments/Institutions for writing and mapping the local history and cultural heritage of a village/panchayaths. |
| − | Governments/Institutions for writing and mapping the local history and cultural heritage of a village/panchayaths. | + | |
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| − | * <p>TAnother program was sketching the biographies of Kerala women, Adivaasis and | + | * <p>TAnother program was sketching the biographies of Kerala women, Adivaasis and Dalits by the students of Kerala colleges/ universities. |
| − | Dalits by the students of Kerala colleges/ universities. | + | |
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* <p> Presently, all these efforts are culminating in a broader project ‘Conservation of the Historical heritage of Kerala’. </p> | * <p> Presently, all these efforts are culminating in a broader project ‘Conservation of the Historical heritage of Kerala’. </p> | ||
Revision as of 15:07, 30 October 2014
Welcome to the Digital Archive of Kerala Council for Historical Research!
About the project
‘Conservation of the Historical Heritage of Kerala’ is an inter disciplinary initiative by the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) to survey, store and study the historical,
cultural and intellectual legacies of people of Kerala. The ‘Digitizing Kerala’s past’ project envisages the collection and creation of a digital repository of various sources related to
archaeology, anthropology and history, lying scattered across the state and outside it as texts, images, monuments, artefacts, oral traditions ,myths, experiences and memories.
Background
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The collection of Malayalam proverbs could elicit the participatory involvement of Malyali senior citizens across the world. A comprehensive volume ‘Keralathile Pazhanchollukal’ with 20345 proverbs and annotations could be published by the KCHR
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History Walk programmes enabled thousands of school children across the state to walk down the memory lane of their older generation to document understand the landscape, history and intellectual legacies of their locality.
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History of Vaniyamkulam village has been published in the name of ‘Vaniyamkulam Panchayath Vijaneeyam’. Extended academic and organizational support to Local Self Governments/Institutions for writing and mapping the local history and cultural heritage of a village/panchayaths.
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TAnother program was sketching the biographies of Kerala women, Adivaasis and Dalits by the students of Kerala colleges/ universities.
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Presently, all these efforts are culminating in a broader project ‘Conservation of the Historical heritage of Kerala’.
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Digitizing Kerala’s Past in one of the components of this project.
