Manuscript preservation is presented as a strategic investment rather than nostalgia.
Technology such as scanning, digitisation, and artificial intelligence will help store and share the content.
Diplomatic efforts focus on restitution of cultural objects, exemplified by the return of the Leiden copper plates.
The Samhita Initiative aims to expand the global reach of India's traditional knowledge.
The manuscripts hold traditional health knowledge and cultural stories that remain relevant today.
The government plans to use digitisation, artificial intelligence, and cataloguing to make these texts accessible to researchers and the public.
India also collaborates internationally to restore, return, and protect cultural heritage objects.
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