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…
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…
This project will deliver skilling and capacity building of women masons in alternative and sustainable building techniques and collaboration partner gender organisations
The Kalliṭaikuṟicci and Villiyampākkam collections are palm-leaf collections held privately in India. The collections are essential to study the prevalent reading practices in…
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…
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…
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…
Kongu Nadu is one of the earliest cultural areas in ancient Tamil land. The documents held by chieftains in the region are of great interest to historians, anthropologists, so…
Rajasthan’s cultural heritage is heavily based on oral traditions. Professional bards and musicians of the region recite traditional epics, with puppetry and music. Recordings…