Southern Asia

Projects in Southern Asia

Gorkha Gurung Women c NIWF

Preservation of Indigenous Food Heritage in Nepal

Documents food heritage in Nepal’s highlands, where climate change threatens traditional foraging and cooking. Women lead the effort to record recipes and practices across pro…

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Main temple in Samling with deteriorated masonry c Kai Weise ICOMOS

Towards Protecting the Cultural Heritage in the High Himalayas of the Shey Phoksundo National Park of Dolpo

Focuses on documenting and protecting the Upper Dolpo region’s monastic sites and historic settlements. It includes community training for heritage mapping and long-term conse…

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Kusunda Studentsc Archive Nepal

Safeguarding the Kusunda (The Ban Rajas) Language and Culture for future generation

Aims to preserve the critically endangered Kusunda language through school courses, online learning, and bilingual children’s books to increase usage and awareness among youth…

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Elephant wall relief c Claire Burkert Janakpur Womens Development Center

Preservation and revival of Maithil women's wall painting and sculpting arts

Reviving traditional Maithil wall art and mud decoration by training local women in Kuwa village. The project empowers women, preserves cultural heritage, and enhances the loc…

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Women masons

Upskilling and Training Initiatives for Women Masons

This project will deliver skilling and capacity building of women masons in alternative and sustainable building techniques and collaboration partner gender organisations

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EAP1294 team

Safeguarding for Posterity Two Private Collections of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts from the Tamil Country

The Kalliṭaikuṟicci and Villiyampākkam collections are palm-leaf collections held privately in India. The collections are essential to study the prevalent reading practices in…

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Eap 1262

Preserving the History of Indian Cinema through Digitising Early Urdu Film Magazines

The Hindi film industry, based in Bombay (now Mumbai), was and is the largest of India’s film industries. Shedding new light on South Asian film journalism and readership, thi…

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Eap 1247

Songs of the Old Madmen: Recovering Baul Songs from the Note-Books of 19th and 20th Century Bengali Saint-Composers

The songs of the Bauls are composed by gurus and performed by itinerant folk musicians. They are transmitted among low-caste communities in India and Bangladesh, where they ar…

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Eap 1228

Locating and Sampling Arabic and Arabic-Malayalam Manuscripts in Kerala, South India

The Arabic and Arabic Malayalam literature of Kerala (Malabar) constitutes an important, under-researched link in the history of intellectual and religious networks in the pre…

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