The N. S. Kashmir
Research Institute will engage itself in determining the parameters for
the study of Kashmir's cultural heritage, promoting research and reinterpretation
of its varied aspects in proper perspective.
The Institute
shall seek to explore and bring to light areas and territories so far unmapped
and undiscovered in Kashmiri culture, art, aesthetics, language, religion,
rituals, philosophy, folklore and allied fields.
It shall endeavour
to collect, procure, retrieve, protect and preserve community literature
and materials relating to its heritage and culture available in the form
of books, manuscripts, journals, paintings, artefacts, works of scholarship,
documents and inscriptions etc.
The Institute
shall compile, collate, edit, and publish research works on various aspects
of Kashmiri art, culture and language; document these materials and assess
their value in the context of the totality of Indian culture.
The Institute
shall bring out a quarterly publication "Spanda", featuring well researched
studies on Kashmiri Pandit literary and cultural heritage, scholarship,
intellectual attainments and bring to fore aspects hitherto unknown and
unexplored.
The Institute
shall organise and conduct symposia, seminars, conferences and discussions
at national and international level, involving scholars, authors and experts
in various fields of Kashmiri Pandit culture and heritage.
It shall encourage
and promote research by scholars and writers to evaluate and examine Kashmir's
literary and cultural tradition in new details and dimensions, bring out
genuine erudition and scholarship from the younger generation of Kashmiri
Pandits and inculcate in them faith in community tradition and culture.
The Institute
shall make efforts to seek grants, aid and donations from various organisations,
N.G.O's, G.O.'s, societies and individuals to realize its aims and objectives.
The Institute
shall make efforts within its means to create visual and audio compedium
covering various aspects of Kashmiri Pandit religion, philosophy, literature,
language.
The Institute
shall grant scholarships to persons of the community for outstanding achievements
in various fields of intellectual activity.
The Institute
shall try to liaise with national and international institutions, organisations,
libraries, universities, research centres and also interact and communicate
with individual writers, authors and scholars, exchanging informations
and materials in order to promote studies on Kashmiri Pandit heritage.
The Research Institute
shall aim at bringing out genuine erudition and scholarship from younger
generation of Pandits and inculcate faith in them in the traditional past
by putting together various aspects of Kashmiri Pandit cultural heritage.
It shall also
undertake to work on life and wisdom of outstanding Kashmiri scholars,
writers, saints and seers inviting international attention and appreciation
for their work.
The main aim and
objective of N. S. Kashmir Research Institute will be to make it a referral
research centre for scholars, researchers and authors for working on Kashmiri
Pandit culture and heritage.