Advertisement
This has been done under Project ‘Shaurya Sankalan: Digital Archiving of Military History’ of the Army, they said.
“Nearly 11 lakh pages and 700 hours of audio-visual content related to declassified records from 1948 Jammu and Kashmir conflict, 1961 Goa Liberation (Operation VIJAY) and 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars, held with over 1300 units, formations, regimental centres and military museums in the form of battle memoirs,” a senior official said.
“After-action reports” and audio-visual films have been cured, digitised and preserved in the ‘Digital Archive Kiosk’ created at the United Services Institute of India, New Delhi, he said.
Related Articles
Advertisement
This will be accessible to researchers, academicians and scholar warriors in a web page interactive format, they said.
“The initiative has given an impetus to digitally inspired and comprehensively compiled ecosystem of the history of the Indian Army which shall continue to be further enhanced and enriched in times to come,” the official said.