The Asian and Indian diaspora is a rich repository of cultural landscapes with its diverse races, culture, ideologies and settlement patterns set across a wide range of geographical settings. The Ministry of Culture, India defines Indian Cultural Landscape as ‘a living, dynamic manifestation of the harmonious co-existence of cultural ideologies with its natural environment and setting.’ However, the full potential of cultural landscapes in India and Asia remains largely unexplored presently.
This book on cultural landscapes in Asia is first of its kind, with a special focus on the Indian context to examine landscape linkages across national boundaries and to understand the synergy between nature and culture within and beyond the framework of UNESCO Operational Guidelines for World Heritage. The book covers cultural landscape attributes and values in various manifestations and at multiple scales – local, national, regional and global. It also attempts to identify typologies of cultural landscapes in Asia and presents the negotiations between nature, culture and community with respect to the management of these sites thus focusing on new directions in the conservation of nature and culture. It is one of the first publications on Indian cultural landscapes looking at typologies, documentation, protection and management of this category of heritage.
Contents: Foreword/Mechtild Rossler. Preface. Cultural Landscapes Beyond Borders: 1.Turkey: Culture-Nature Sustainability/Ege Yildirim. 2. Mount Kailash, the transnational landscape: A Nepalese perspective/Kai Weise. 3. Bhutan as a cultural landscape/Junko Mukai. 4. Tibet in India: the religious cultural landscape/Gayatri Hegde. 5. Upper Mustang: A cultural landscape framework/Neel Kamal Chapagain. 6. Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka: mapping nature culture values/Nuwan Abeywardana. 7. The Korean military landscape/Doowon Cho. Documenting and Understanding Cultural Landscape Typologies: 8. Archaeological Landscape of Haryana/Tejas Garge and Apurva Sinha. 9. Associative cultural landscapes: the case of Khangchendzonga/Shweta Wagh. 10. Military landscapes of land and sea frontiers of India/Nupur Prothi Khanna and Shikha Jain. 11. The eternal sacredscape: Varanasi/Rana PB Singh. 12. Living Ghats of Varanasi/Amita Sinha. 13. The Picturesque Landscape: Oont Kadal in Dal Lake/Saima Iqbal and Ikra Syed. 14. Industrial landscape of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway/Aishwarya Tipnis and Subra Kar. 15. Institutional landscape of Tagore’s Abode, Shantiniketan/Amit Bhattacharya. 16. Coastal Landscape of Pulicat Lagoon/Xavier Benedict. 17. Cultural identity and spatial transformation of Kumbakonam/Sowmya PS. 18. Lithology and mythology in the sacred region of Ekamra Kshetra/Piyush Das. 19. Relict landscapes: rock shelters in the Lower Chambal Valley/Richa Misra. 20. Bio-Cultural landscape: the case of Kutch/Neel Kamal Chapagain. Managing cultural landscapes in India: 21. Challenges for the Cultural Landscapes of Northeast India/Sonali Ghosh, Persis Farooqy and Vinod B Mathur. 22. Managing the mixed world heritage site: Khangchendzonga National Park/Dechen Lachungpa. 23. Monitoring challenges in a living cultural landscape: river island of Majuli/Somi Chatterjee. 24. Management challenges in contested landscapes: Ayodhya/Sarvesh Kumar and Rana PB Singh. 25. Development challenges in historic urban landscape: Mattancherry, Kochi/Monolitha Mathew. 26. Amaravathi heritage town: narratives from an Indian Eco-museum Development/Amareswar Galla.
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