Complex sentence: This was the first such attempt to catalogue all Indian manuscripts; beginning in 1935, the University of Madras began working on an updated catalogue called the "New Catalogus Catalogorum", a work that is still in progress.
Split into simpler sentences: This was the first such attempt to catalogue all Indian manuscripts. Beginning in 1935, the University of Madras began working on an updated catalogue called the "New Catalogus Catalogorum", a work that is still in progress.