Learn Modi-Script

"मोडीलिपी शिका" - Learn Modi Script

Modi script was invented as a cursive “shorthand” or speed writing to note down the royal edicts. Over the centuries, the Modi script has evolved and can be classified as : Bahamani (16th century), Shivkalin (17th century), Peshwekalin (18th century) and Anglakalin (19th -20th century).

Traditional Devanagari script was found to be excessively time-consuming, since each character required as many as 3 to 5 strokes and the lifting of the hand, each time the stroke was completed. Modi script got round this obstacle by “bending” the letters thereby doing away with the need of lifting the hand. This invention thus allowed for a continuous writing which could be used by court scribes to note the edicts. All official documents of the Maratha empire spread across India are archived in Modi script. Learning Modi script is useful to Academicians, Historians, Researchers and Legal experts and also for knowing more about cultural & heritage preservation.

We aim to create awareness, increase proliferation, help in preservation of Modi Script and generate interest in a new generation of users; thereby reviving this heritage script and placing it on the digital platform.

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