To find 50 lakh manuscripts in five years and document and preserve them is no small task. The greatest difficulty in finding manuscripts is that they are quite simply everywhere—in a local temple or mosque, in a big library or state archives, in the private collection of a Nawab or in the small home of a villager.
In order to step up the efforts at locating, documenting and preserving India’s manuscripts, NMM launched a massive survey programmes in different states of India.

Forthcoming Surveys

Past Surveys