Chattampi Swami Archive

Chattampi Swami led a wandering life and left what he wrote with friends and disciples at different places. There were no later attempts to collect and conserve them, which led to their gradual loss. A few works that got unearthed and published almost a century after his death motivated and showed the value and the extent of the loss that occurred to the society which was at one time unmindful of conserving his works.

Chattampi Swami Archive (CSA) established as a division of Centre for south Indian Studies is a registered Public Charitable Trust and unctions under Centre for south Indian Studies, with the main mandate to collect and collate documents that still exist on Chattampi Swamikal, his disciples and contemporary saints who led reformation and renaissance in Kerala. leaders. The Centre has already collected about 10000 pages related to Swami, which include a few recently unearthed manuscripts. CSA will conserve digitally the available manuscripts by and on Swami; different editions of his printed books, poems, essays, commentaries, letters and notes; photographs, paintings, drawings, audio/video files of lectures and documentaries related to him; memoirs of his close associates, contemporaries etc. CSA will also undertake the publication of compared and edited authentic versions of Swami’s works as well as related biographies in English and other Indian languages. The Chattampi Swami Digital Archive (CSDA) will be an online Open Archive accessible worldwide. CSA requests all those who possess related documents to provide them for digitization and inclusion in the archive. Originals will be returned and support will be acknowledged.