Three Indian Texts Added to Unesco Memory of the World Register
Three works from India's literary heritage have been added to Unesco's Memory of the World Regional Register. The works are Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the Mahabharata and Kautilya's Arthashastra. The recognition came recently and reflects different aspects of India's history and culture.
Context
Context: Unesco's Memory of the World programme protects documents seen as important to human history. Rajatarangini is a 12th-century Kashmiri history of kings, while the Arthashastra is an ancient treatise on statecraft.
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