Guwahati, April 29 -- Reported by Bhadra Gogoi

Dimapur: Nagaland's Art and Culture Department has initiated a statewide manuscript survey under the Gyan Bharatam Mission, a national initiative of the Union Ministry of Culture.

The mission aims to identify, document and create a national database of manuscripts and historically significant records, with a focus on preserving India's documentary heritage and traditional knowledge systems.

Officials said many valuable manuscripts and records remain scattered across institutions, religious centres, community repositories and private collections, with a large number still undocumented.

In Nagaland, documentary heritage is largely preserved outside formal archival systems. Such materials ar...