Digital Preservation of Kerala Archives Project

The Digital Preservation of Kerala Archives (DiPiKA) project aims to digitize and catalog endangered, largely Hindu manuscripts in Sanskrit, Malayalam, and Manipravalam languages, expanding a differentiated and multilingual history of the region. These collections are kept in private households and religious institutions of the two Southernmost states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the only traces left of intellectual, religious, and literary traditions peculiar to that part of the Indian subcontinent. The project is a collaboration with the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO, Paris and Pondicherry), the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg, and the Vadakke Madham Brahmaswam (Vedic Research Centre, Thrissur).