School clubs to help preserve rare documents
By Asha P Nair
16th August 2011 02:39 AM
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For years now, the Archives Department has been trying out different ways to make the public, part with the historical documents in their possession for conservation.
However, few have relented. But school children belonging to various heritage clubs across the state have been more successful in convincing the private parties in this regard.Making use of this, the Archives Department has now kicked off a programme wherein the historical documents in possession of school heritage clubs would be collected, preserved and if necessary conserved in schools itself.
The first school to be part of this unique programme will be GHSS Peruvallur, Malappuram. The school’s heritage club had carried out a survey in the immediate neighbourhood and collected many documents and artefacts of archival and archeological importance.
Two significant documents among them, one a ‘mulakarana’ (which is a document written using bamboo) and a title deed dating back to 1902 which was connected to the then Zamorin of Calicut, were handed over to the Archives Department the other day.
The department has deployed a team in Kozhikode Central Archives who will conserve the documents and preserve them at the school’s heritage club. However, in case of schools which are not able to spare space, it will be taken over by the Archives department. The public are reluctant to hand over documents to the department. They are more comfortable sharing them with the nearby school. It might be this psychology that is working because many of them say they could at least drop in and see it preserved there,’’ says Remani teacher, who is in charge of the heritage club in GHSS Peruvallur.
The heritage clubs in schools across the state have conducted surveys in their localities and collected archival documents. “It was a programme we kicked off to promote the study of local history and preservation of local yet historical documents. It is as the second phase of the programme that we are collecting the documents and helping schools preserve them.,’’ says Archives Director J Rejikumar.
However, few have relented. But school children belonging to various heritage clubs across the state have been more successful in convincing the private parties in this regard.Making use of this, the Archives Department has now kicked off a programme wherein the historical documents in possession of school heritage clubs would be collected, preserved and if necessary conserved in schools itself.
The first school to be part of this unique programme will be GHSS Peruvallur, Malappuram. The school’s heritage club had carried out a survey in the immediate neighbourhood and collected many documents and artefacts of archival and archeological importance.
Two significant documents among them, one a ‘mulakarana’ (which is a document written using bamboo) and a title deed dating back to 1902 which was connected to the then Zamorin of Calicut, were handed over to the Archives Department the other day.
The department has deployed a team in Kozhikode Central Archives who will conserve the documents and preserve them at the school’s heritage club. However, in case of schools which are not able to spare space, it will be taken over by the Archives department. The public are reluctant to hand over documents to the department. They are more comfortable sharing them with the nearby school. It might be this psychology that is working because many of them say they could at least drop in and see it preserved there,’’ says Remani teacher, who is in charge of the heritage club in GHSS Peruvallur.
The heritage clubs in schools across the state have conducted surveys in their localities and collected archival documents. “It was a programme we kicked off to promote the study of local history and preservation of local yet historical documents. It is as the second phase of the programme that we are collecting the documents and helping schools preserve them.,’’ says Archives Director J Rejikumar.
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