Resumo de Preserving History

Preserving history
By early 16th century, the Indian coastline,specifically
the coromandel Coast,gave way to European
Trade,settlements. Prortuguese cartographers(like Joao de
Casto and Diogo Homem)were drawing maps of the Indian Sub-
content base don real observatin in the same century.
Through the 17th and 18th centuries surveys of river
basins,land settlements,fortifications were being taken up
by the Europeans. Through a pat of the Eurindia
Project,this history is being revisited but the aims are
differentto build a compendium of India-Europe cultural
historical property,through collaborative archival
researchand technical-scientific preservations of these
materials. The Euroindia Project is a new,historical
parnership towards giving a ?new twist? to the ?two
nations? through collaborating towards cultural preservatin
rather than mere-trade for profit. Eurindia is co-
sponsored bythe Eurindia is co-sponspored bythe European
commissin under Economic,Cross-cultural programmes(ECCP)
to ?promte links and joint Ventures between India and
European Union.? The British lLibrary in Hyderabad and the
Goethe-Zentrm are jointly hosting an interesting exhibitiom
on the ?Cross-cultural preservatin and Cross-cultural
Digital Disseminatin Tools.? The exhibition was formally
opened for viewing on October 19. For want of space,only
part of the exhibition,comprising poster panels on the
Euroindia project and its aims,is ondisplay. The exhibitin
is part of the European Union Cultural Weeks being
celebrated in different cities in India. It is alsotimed
with cheerful news for Europe?s major culturalinsittutes
including the British library,Alliance Francaise,Goethe-
Zentrum,Societa Dante Alighrei,Instituto Camnoes. They
have won this year?s 25th Price of Asturias award for
Communications and Humanties. India and the European Unin
are entering into various kinds of collaborative ventures.
In the Cultural arena,a few important projects include
protectin of istoricalmonuments,archival researchy and
documentatin of European and Indian cartography and textile
trade,and so forth. The Indo-European Exchange and
Knowledge Transfer onREquired Basics in Building
Clinmatology(CLIMON)project is alreadyin operatin at the
Humayun Tombs inDelhi. Among the project partners are IIT
Delhi,Malaviya National Insitute of
Techninology,Jaipur,TechnicalUniversity,Desden Germany and
ASI(Government of India,Delhi). The Project involves study
of climatic and material parameters on buildings to measure
relative humidity,radiaton,etc.,through automated data
logging. Among the panels that give some interesting
insights into the historicallinks between India and
European countries is one with a reprodctin of a cargo with
a reproduction of a cargo list of the ship called Aerts
Hertoginne,which reached Ostend from Bengal in August
1728. Among the things in the list is also textgile from
Coroomandel,around ?5170 tannsjebs?(tanzebs). There is
another panel with a 1752 map byJacques-nicolas Bellin. As
part of the European Union cultural week, a set of
short,docu-films under the broader title ?spice of life- an
EU-India Experience?are also being screened at the British
Library,Alliance Francaise and Goethe-Zentrum. One of the
first fi,lms screened at the British Library on October 19
was Age o Bar,wherein Indian filmmaker Vijay Kutty and
German Nadja Stammeier look at ageing in Germanyand
India,respectively,through their?Indian?and German?eyes.
One wishes though the exhibition and the entire programme
would e taken up in collaboration with local schools and
colleges

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