Abstract

The preservation of cultural memory has emerged as a significant concern in the twenty-first century due to rapid technological advancement globalization urbanization and changing patterns of social interaction. India with its vast and diverse cultural heritage faces both opportunities and challenges in safeguarding tangible and intangible cultural assets for future generations. Digital heritage preservation has become an essential strategy for documenting archiving and disseminating cultural resources through modern technologies such as digitization artificial intelligence cloud computing virtual reality and digital repositories. The integration of digital tools into heritage conservation enables wider accessibility enhanced public participation and long-term preservation of historical records manuscripts monuments folk traditions languages rituals and collective memories. This study examines the relationship between cultural memory and digital heritage preservation in contemporary In