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The "National Library, India" in Calcutta has announced a project to digitize rare, old material.  If implemented successfully and made accessible to scholars around the world, this material would have a significant impact on teaching and research about India.  Other digitization efforts

Google announced on December 17, 2009 an online transliteration tool that enables users to type phonetically in Roman characters to generate vernacular scripts in the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.  This tool is embedded in Google products like gmail, but they have also provided bookmarklets for each language that let you type in any text box on any web site.

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