Hyderabad, Sep 7 (IANS) Conservation and digitalisation of uncommon Urdu and Persian verifiable original copies at the Telangana State Archives and Research Institute will be taken up under a joint Indo-Iranian task.
The Telangana State Archives and Research Institute, Hyderabad on Wednesday went into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in such manner with Noor International Microfilm Center (NIMC), of Iran’s Culture House, New Delhi.
Under the MoU, Iranian focus will take up the maintenance, protection, digitalisation and classifying of compositions and records which are a typical legacy among India and Iran.
This initiativeAwill rejuvenate a large number of verifiable reports, and provide people in the future with a brief look at the state’s rich legacy.
It will likewise be an important resource for researchers from different nations who consistently team up with Telangana State Archives for their exploration on medieval and present day history of India and Telangana.
The whole cycle will be finished at no expense for the state and will be completely borne by the Iranian government, Telangana government authorities said.
One of the main chronicles of India, the Telangana State Archives and Research Institute has an assortment of intriguing and verifiable records tracing all the way back to 1406 AD relating to the Bahmani, Qutb Shahi, Adil Shahi and Mughal traditions that governed over the district.
The Institute houses in excess of 43 million archives, of which 80% of the records are in the traditional Persian and Urdu dialects attributable to it being the authority dialects of the past lines of the Hyderabad Deccan locale. The records likewise incorporate the first duplicates of GOs, newspapers and so on of brought together Andhra Pradesh from 1956 to 2014.
India and Iran have partaken in a common history which has impacted the two societies and civilisations. The reports housed in the Telangana State Archives are significant authentic ancient rarities of the two nations. Subsequently, it means a lot to save this important joint legacy, authorities said.
The MoU trade function occurred at T-Hub Phase 2.0, within the sight of Telangana’s Minister for Industries and Information Technology, K.T. Rama Rao and Iranian Ambassador to India, Dr. Ali Chegeni.
The occasion was additionally gone to by Telanagana’s Principal Secretary, ITE&C and Industries, Jayesh Ranjan, Director of State Archives and Research Institute, Dr. Zareena Parveen, NIMC Director, Dr. Mehdi Khajeh Piri, and NIMC’s Regional Director for South Indian States, Ali Niroomand.