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Indian Council for Cultural Relations

Autonomous organisation of the Government of India

Summary

Autonomous organisation of the Government of India

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abbreviation	ICCR
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type	Governmental organization
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headquarters	Azad Bhawan, I. P Estate, New Delhi - 110002
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region_served	Worldwide
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leader_title	President
leader_name	Vacant
leader_title2	Director General
leader_name2	K. Nandini Singla
main_organ	Governing Body
parent_organisation	Government of India
affiliations	Ministry of External Affairs
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The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India, involved in India's global cultural relations, through cultural exchange with other countries and their people. It was founded on 9 April 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of independent India.

The ICCR Headquarter is situated at Azad Bhawan, I.P. Estate, New Delhi, with regional offices in Bengaluru, Guwahati, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna, Pune, Shillong, Jammu and Ahmedabad. The council also operates missions internationally, with established cultural centres in Georgetown, Paramaribo, Port Louis, Jakarta, Moscow, Valladolid, Berlin, Cairo, London (Nehru Centre, London), Tashkent, Almaty, Johannesburg, Durban, Port of Spain and Colombo. ICCR has opened new cultural centers in Dhaka, Thimphu, São Paulo, Kathmandu, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo.

Activities

Copy of the Hindu figurine of [[Shiva Nataraja]], donation to the [[Museum of Asian Art of Corfu]], Greece

The Council addresses its mandate of cultural diplomacy through a broad range of activities. In addition to organising cultural festivals in India and overseas, the ICCR financially supports a number of cultural institutions across India, and sponsors individual performers in dance, music, photography, theatre, and the visual arts. It also administers the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, established by the Government of India in 1965, whose last award was in 2009.

Publications

Six quarterly journals, are published in five different languages:

Journal	Language
Indian Horizons	English
Africa Quarterly	English
Gagananchal	Hindi
Papeles de la India	Spanish
Rencontre Avec I' Inde	French
Thaqafat-ul-Hind	Arabic

References

(2024-10-24). "ICCR organises conference on Pali as classical language in Colombo". The Hindu.
"Welcome to Indian Cultural Centre, Embassy of India, Paramaribo".
Chakrabarty, Sreeparna. (2023-04-02). "How ICCR plans to build its brand ambassador programme amongst foreign students in India". The Hindu.
(2020-08-26). "Buddha's attitude towards the caste system as available in Pāli texts". Routledge India.
"Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR): about the organisation".
"Indian Council for Cultural Relations Jaipur".
(2024-03-27). "University of Houston renews MoU with ICCR to set up new chair on Tamil language, literature".
"Nehru Award Recipients". Government of India.

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