HIPAMS INDIA

HIPAMS emerged from a project funded by the British Academy under their sustainable development programme 2018-2021.  The project team comprised researchers from Europe, Charlotte Waelde, Harriet Deacon, Diego Rinallo, Benedetta Ubertazzi, June Taboroff; an NGO based in Kolkata, Banglanatak.com, Ananya Bhattacharya, Ananditra Patra, Rajat Nath; and four communities from West Bengal, Patachitra, Chau dance and Chau mask makers, and Baul Fakirs. 

The purpose of the project was to work with the communities to develop heritage sensitive intellectual property and marketing strategies to help them make a sustainable living from their intangible heritage. These documents (April 2021) form the core outputs from the project.  They are available to be reproduced, amended and re-purposed under a CC-BY license – please note specific attribution requests in some of the documents. 

The toolkit forms one of the core outputs.  The working paper guides the reader through the research teams’ process of developing HIPAMS.  The evaluation paper gives an indication of the impacts of the project in April 2021.  We hope to carry out a follow up evaluation in five years.