India and Britain have successfully completed the first ever digitalisation of Ramayana. The British Library and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya of Mumbai have together digitalised the 17th- century Mewar Ramayana Manuscript which was split between the two for 150 years.
The Mewar Ramayana is a collection of 400 paintings in seven volumes produced between 1649 and 1653.
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The collaborative project will create a website enabling researches and members of the public to freely access the completed manuscript. The project is funded by the Jamshedji Tata Trust and the World Collections Programme. The manuscripts were produced for Rana Jaga Singh of Mewar in his court studio at Udaipur and are considered fundamental to the art and culture of India.
The digitalised version will go live on March 21.
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