Digitizing Kerala’s Past

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<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <div style="width:100%;" id="kchr_welcome"> <span style="font-size:22px;"> Welcome to the Digital Archive of Kerala Council for Historical Research! </span> </div> <hr> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <div style="width:100%;" id="kchr_about"> <span style="font-size:22px; font-weight:bold;color:rgb(140, 73, 49);"> About the project </span> <p> ‘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.<br><br> </p> <span style="font-size:21px; font-weight:bold;color:rgb(140, 73, 49);"> Background </span> * <p>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 </p> * <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> * <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. </p> * <p>Another program was sketching the biographies of Kerala women, Adivaasis and Dalits by the students of Kerala colleges/ universities. </p> * <p> In collaboration with the ISRO Trivandrum & River Valley Technologies Trivandrum an effort was initiated to digitize out of print books, personal documents and old photographs.</p> * <p>Digitizing Kerala’s Past in one of the components of this project. </p> </div> <hr> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <!-- <div style="width:100%;"> <span style="font-size:25px; font-weight:bold;"> Contribute - Request for an account </span> <p> Do you wish to be the part of this project? If yes then please[[KCHR:Signup | fill this registration form]] and request for the login credentials. </p> </div> <hr> --> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <!-- <div style="width:100%;"> <span style="font-size:25px; font-weight:bold;"> Donate! </span> * <p> Donate to the Online Archiving of Kerala's Cultural legacy – ‘Digitizing Kerala's Past’. This would help us to build up an archival repository free for all. </p> * <p> This would further support us to empower girl students, physically challenged persons, housewives and retired persons who engage in the transcribing exercise. </p> * <p> Donors will receive an email confirmation of their donation that can be used for tax records new. </p> </div> <hr> --> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -->