About Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) an autonomous Trust set up by the Govt. of India and established in the memory of Smt. Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, is a premier resource Centre engaged in research, documentation, publication and dissemination of knowledge of the arts, it is visualized as a centre encompassing the study and experience of all the arts, each form with its own integrity, yet within a dimension of mutual interdependence and inter-relatedness with nature, social structure and cosmology. Through diverse programmes of research, publication, training, creative activities and performance, IGNCA seeks to place the arts within the context of the natural and cultural environment. In the conventional sense of research discipline it relates to indology, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, and history. The fundamental approach of the Centre in all its work is multidisciplinary. The work of the Centre is carried through five divisions, viz. Kala Nidhi, Kala Kosa, Janapada Sampada, Kala Darshana, and Suttradhara.

It has a well developed Media Unit for audio-visual documentation and film making; Cultural Informatics Lab for production of CD-Roms, DVDs, and developing National Digital Data Bank on Culture

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