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Abstract : Transliteration is the process of transcribing text scripted in one system of writing into another. It tries to script the same word in a language into another, thereby enabling reader to rebuild the original spelling of the unknown transliterated word. The primary objective of transliteration is to produce a different way of representing texts using a different language or writing system. India, being a multilingual nation, transliterators have played a major role in various modes of communication. Apart from the readability of unknown languages, transliterated texts or words are also used in Computational Linguistics Tools such as Stemmers, Morphological Generators, Dictionaries, etc., for easier processing and handling. Forward transliteration means transliterating the source language to its prescribed targeted language and the conversion of the transliterated word to its original form is known as back-transliteration. The motivation of the proposed work is to provide a forward and backward transliteration on different Indian language and on Roman script. This paper presents a study on the existing transliteration schemes and the various attempts made in building transliterations and back-transliterations for Indian languages from a computational linguistics perspective.