Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

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Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts ( Hindi: इन्दिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय कला केन्द्र) is the premier government funded arts organization in India, as an as an autonomous institution under the Department of Culture. Its founding director was Kapila Vatsyayan.

The IGNCA was inaugurated on November 19, 1985, in Bangalore, by the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

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[edit] Goals

Its official goals are:

  • to serve as a major resource centre for Indian arts, especially written, oral and visual source materials;
  • to conduct research on the arts and humanities, and to publish reference works, glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopedias;
  • to establish a tribal and folk arts division with a core collection for conducting systematic scientific studies and live presentations;
  • to provide a forum for dialogue through performances, exhibitions, multi-media projections, conferences, seminars and workshops on traditional and cotemporary Indian arts;
  • to foster dialogue between the arts and current ideas in philosophy, science and technology, with a view toward bridging the gap in intellectual understanding between modern sciences and arts and culture;
  • to evolve models of research programmes and arts administration pertinent to the Indian ethos;
  • to elucidate the formative and dynamic factors in the complex web of interactions between diverse social strata, communities and regions;
  • to interact with other national and international institutions; and
  • to conduct related research in the arts, humanities and culture.

[edit] Units

  • Kalānidhi (Devanagari: कलानिधि) is a reference library on multimedia collections[1].
  • Kālakośa (कलाकोश) is the research and publication division, investigating the intellectual traditions in their dimensions of multi-layers and multi-disciplines[2].
  • Janapada Sampadā (जनपद संपदा), is the division engaged in lifestyle studies[3]. It has a programmatic character classified as Lifestyle Studies, Multi-media Presentation and Events, and Children’s World, each with a number of subprogrammes.
  • Kalādarśana (कलादर्शन) is the executive unit that transforms researches and studies emanating from the IGNCA into visible forms through exhibitions[4].
  • Cultural Informatics Laboratory (संस्कृतिका संयन्त्रिका संचार), where there are applied technology tools for cultural preservation and propagation[5]. Among its projects it is Kalāsampadā (कलासंपदा)[6], a digital repository of content and information integrated with a user-friendly interface, for encompassing and preserving the rare archival collections of the IGNCA.
  • Sutrādhāra (सूत्राधार) is the administrative section, supporting and coordinating all the activities[7]. The Member Secretary is the Executive head of both academic and administrative divisions. It comprises Administration, Finance, Accounts, Services & Supplies and International Dialogue Unit.
  • The Diaspora Cultural Resource Centre[8] aims to build up a cross-cultural inter disciplinary dialogue among Indians in India and the world and to catalyst cultural inputs in the development by drawing on Indian Diaspora.


[edit] Regional centres

  • Southern Regional Centre, established in 2001, in Bangalore, aimed at intensifying the centre's studies on the southern region's art and cultural heritage[9].
  • Varanasi Regional Centre, established in 1998, mainly engaged in publication of Kalatattvakosa series, a lexicon of fundamental concepts of the Indian arts[10].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kalānidhi
  2. ^ Kālakośa
  3. ^ Janapada Sampadā
  4. ^ Kalādarśana
  5. ^ Cultural Informatics Laboratory
  6. ^ Kalāsampadā
  7. ^ Sutrādhāra
  8. ^ Diaspora Cultural Resource Centre
  9. ^ IGNCA Southern Regional Centre
  10. ^ IGNCA Varanasi Regional Centre

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