India 75 Events

2022年标志着由亚洲人权委员会资助的试点项目“两个世纪的印度版画”（2CIP）的结束，以及印度独立75周年，以及南亚其他重要的国家活动。我们建议通过一个专门的活动项目来展示2CIP的编目、数字化和研究成果，并庆祝印度的印刷、电影和文学历史，旨在最大限度地发挥这些项目的影响，展示它们在记录馆藏和提供馆藏方面的作用，以及吸引新用户和使大英图书馆的读者多样化。2CIP主要关注东印度和东印度语言，如孟加拉语、阿萨姆语和锡尔赫蒂语。因此，2CIP活动，如2021年10月在大英图书馆举行的孟加拉国50周年纪念活动，往往面向英国孟加拉国游客。通过安排针对多个英属南亚社区的活动，拟议中的印度75项活动项目将能够维持与英属孟加拉国社区的现有关系，并与其他英属亚洲社区建立新的联系。因此，该项目的活动计划将通过庆祝该地区语言和文化的多样性，对普通和学术观众以及多个英国南亚社区具有广泛的吸引力。计划举办的活动包括为英国和印度感兴趣的观众举办的社区展演、工作坊、研讨会和电影放映。这些活动还将为正在制定的更广泛的计划奠定基础，这些计划旨在扩大未来南亚收藏品保护、数字化和研究项目的区域和语言重点。这一活动计划的影响将使英国亚裔社区团体和非学术观众受益，他们将更加熟悉图书馆的南亚馆藏，并更有信心出于自己的兴趣和研究（例如研究他们的特定文化和地区遗产）而访问这些藏品。反过来，图书馆将通过积极参与与伦敦和其他地区的南亚社区建立更牢固的关系。

2022 marks the conclusion of the AHRC-funded pilot project Two Centuries of Indian Print (2CIP) and the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, as well as other important national events across South Asia.We propose to showcase 2CIP's cataloguing, digitisation and research outputs and celebrate India's print, film and literary history with a dedicated events programme that aims to maximise the impact of such programmes and demonstrate their role in documenting collections and making them available, as well as engaging with new users and diversifying British Library audiences.2CIP was largely focused on East India and East Indian languages such as Bengali, Assamese and Sylheti. As a result, 2CIP events, such as the October 2021 Bangladesh 50 at the British Library, were often oriented towards British Bangladeshi visitors. Through arranging events aimed at multiple British South Asian communities, the proposed India 75 Events project will be able to sustain existing relationships with the British Bangladeshi community as well as form new connections with other British Asian communities. Therefore, this project's programme of events will have a wide appeal to both general and academic audiences, as well as multiple British South Asian communities through celebrating the region's diversity of languages and cultures.Proposed events include Community Show and Tells, Workshops, Seminars and Film Screenings for interested audiences in the UK and India. These events would also contribute to laying the foundation for wider plans being developed that seek to broaden the regional and linguistic focus of future South Asian collections conservation, digitisation and research projects.The impact of this programme of events will benefit British Asian community groups and non-academic audiences who will become more familiar with the Library's South Asia holdings and feel more confident accessing the collection items for their own interest and research, for example, research into their particular cultural and regional heritage. The Library in turn will foster stronger relationships by proactively engaging with South Asian communities both in London and beyond.