Amit Shah, Devendra Fadnavis, and Eknath Shinde attended the ceremony.
The society will digitise and preserve rare texts such as Mahabharata illustrations, Jain Kalpasutra, and Buddhist manuscripts.
A new project ‘Kane Samagra’ will compile the works of Pandit Pandurang Vaman Kane for future generations.
The government aims to link heritage institutions across the country to form a common knowledge repository.
The initiative stresses that knowledge should remain free and not be used as a tool of power.
He called for digitising manuscripts and linking them with the Gyan Bharatam National Manuscript Mission to create a shared national repository.
The event highlighted the importance of presenting history from an Indian perspective and separating knowledge from political power.
Leaders also discussed collecting ancestral documents from villages and making them accessible to scholars and students.
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