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| leader_name2 = K. Nandini Singla<br />
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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]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-10-24 |title=ICCR organises conference on Pali as classical language in Colombo |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/iccr-organises-conference-on-pali-as-classical-language-in-colombo/article68792044.ece |access-date=2025-03-11 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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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 centre]]s in [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]], [[Paramaribo]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iccsur.org/pages.php?id=2|title=Welcome to Indian Cultural Centre, Embassy of India, Paramaribo|website=iccsur.org|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref> [[Port Louis]], [[Jakarta]], [[Moscow]], [[Valladolid]], [[Berlin]], [[Cairo]], [[London]] ([[Nehru Centre, London]]), [[Tashkent]], [[Almaty]], [[Johannesburg]], [[Durban]], [[Port of Spain]] and [[Colombo]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chakrabarty |first=Sreeparna |date=2023-04-02 |title=How ICCR plans to build its brand ambassador programme amongst foreign students in India |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/how-iccr-plans-to-build-its-brand-ambassador-programme-amongst-foreign-students-in-india/article66689269.ece |access-date=2025-03-11 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> ICCR has opened new cultural centers in [[Dhaka]], [[Thimphu]], [[São Paulo]], [[Kathmandu]],<ref>[[Bimalendra Kumar]]{{Citation |title=Buddha's attitude towards the caste system as available in Pāli texts |date=2020-08-26 |work=Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste |pages=29–39 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003045090-3 |access-date=2024-08-15 |publisher=Routledge India |isbn=978-1-003-04509-0}}</ref> [[Bangkok]], [[Kuala Lumpur]] and [[Tokyo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iccr.tripod.com/aboutus.htm|title=Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR): about the organisation|website=iccr.tripod.com|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://facebook.com/iccrjaipur|title=Indian Council for Cultural Relations Jaipur|website=facebook.com|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Activities==<br />
[[File:Museum of Asian art of Corfu 248.JPG|thumb|Copy of the Hindu figurine of [[Shiva Nataraja]], donation to the [[Museum of Asian Art of Corfu]], Greece]]<br />
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]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-27 |title=University of Houston renews MoU with ICCR to set up new chair on Tamil language, literature |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/education/university-of-houston-renews-mou-iccr-tamil-language-literature-9233729/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> It also administers the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding]], established by the [[Government of India]] in 1965, whose last award was in 2009.<ref name="Nehru Award Recipients">{{cite web | url=http://iccr.gov.in/content/nehru-award-recipients | title=Nehru Award Recipients | publisher=Government of India | work=Indian Council for Cultural Relations | access-date=8 October 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815011210/http://iccr.gov.in/content/nehru-award-recipients | archive-date=15 August 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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===Publications===<br />
Six quarterly journals, are published in five different languages:<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Journal<br />
! Language<br />
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| ''Indian Horizons''<br />
| English<br />
|-<br />
| ''Africa Quarterly''<br />
| English<br />
|-<br />
| ''Gagananchal''<br />
| Hindi<br />
|-<br />
| ''Papeles de la India''<br />
| Spanish<br />
|-<br />
| ''Rencontre Avec I' Inde''<br />
| French<br />
|-<br />
| ''Thaqafat-ul-Hind''<br />
| Arabic<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* {{Official website}}<br />
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{{International cultural promotion organizations}}<br />
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