EAP1260 — "Digitisation and Cataloguing of Sri Lankan Tamil Palm-Leaf Manuscripts

Thillainathan Kopinath (Project Lead) / Noolaham Foundation · British Library Endangered Archives Programme, 2022

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Official British Library Endangered Archives Programme final report for EAP1260, awarded to the Noolaham Foundation. The project digitised and catalogued 70,000 images from 300–500 Tamil and Sanskrit palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern provinces — precisely the tradition devastated by the 1981 burning. The report confirms the scale of surviving manuscript vulnerability and documents the methodology for preservation. Direct archival response to 1981.

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