Founded on July 6, 1917, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune
Founded on July 6, 1917, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, commemorates the legacy of Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, a pioneer of scientific Orientology in India. Registered as a public trust, the Institute is supported by grants from the Maharashtra Government, Government of India, and the University Grants Commission for its research projects.
Orientology is the study of the ancient indigenous lore and wisdom of the East or the ‘Orient’. The Institute concerns itself with research activity in the field of Orientology with a vision to enlighten the world about the all-comprehensive knowledge generated in the East, especially, in India.
The institute has one of the largest collections of rare books and manuscripts spanning over 1,25,000 books and over 28,000 manuscripts collected over a period of 90 years covering practically every aspect of Orientology. This collection covers several languages and scripts such as Sanskrit, Prakrit, Indian regional languages, Classical, Asean and European languages. In addition, through the pursuits of its research projects in the Mahabharata and Prakrit Languages it has created invaluable reference archives.
The Institute organizes learned Lectures by guest scholars under its various Memorial Lectureships. The All India Oriental Conference, various seminars and scholarly discussions are also organized by the Institute. The institute publishes its annual journal ‘Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute’. The most prominent publications of the Institute are: Critical Edition of the Mahabharata, Descriptive Catalogues of Manuscripts and The Prakrit Dictionary. The Institute also hosts a Manuscripts Resource and Conservation Centre under the auspices of the National Mission for Manuscripts, a project of the Cultural Ministry of India.
In short, the Institute has been effectively playing the role of a very significant centre of Indological Studies and Research over the last nine decades.
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The Mission-Statement of the BORI reads:
The Institute is devoted to promoting Oriental Studies through research, training, publications, and scholarly guidance.
(a) To place within the easy reach of advanced students of research a first-class and up-to-date Oriental library, and to afford them all other ready-made helps in the way of select topical bibliographies, digests, of magazine articles, card indexes, electronic media and similar critical material
(b) To train qualified students in the scientific methods of research by opening postgraduate classes, founding lectureships and, in time, preparing students for higher degrees in research.
(c) To place indigenous learning of the Shastris upon a broader and sounder basis by making the necessary and suitable arrangements for their guidance and training.
(d) To undertake and publish, with the co-operation of various scholars, critical editions of texts, as also original and independent works of historical nature bearing upon Oriental Studies, including Journals, Proceedings, Catalogues, Reports and occasional studies.
(e) To act as a bureau for literary advice and information on all points connected with Oriental Studies in general.
(f) And to plan and carry out all other projects not inconsistent with the foregoing and calculated to help the promulgation of Oriental Studies in general.
