About the Book: Manuscript and Indian Culture
India has the largest collection of manuscripts in the world. Millions of
manuscripts are lying in libraries, museums and private collections in all over
India. All are the valuable sources of knowledge especially of ancient Indian
history and culture. Various type of scripts have been used for writing the
manuscripts which are-Devanagari, Tiglari, Sarada, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam,
Grantha, Tamil, Nandinagari, old Newari, Persian and Arabic etc. In the second
half of the 18th century, a few British officers such as Sir William Jones
(1746-1794), Sir Robert Chambers (1774-1779), Colin Mackenzie (1782-1806) took a
deep interest for studying the Indian culture.