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Arabindoo, Pushpa."Isolated By Elitism: The Pitfalls Of Recent Heritage...

On 4 April 2003, the then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa informed the State Assembly that the “rundown” buildings on the 30-acre, 88-year old Queen Mary's College (QMC) on Marina beach in...

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Losch, Hans."SOURCES OF SRĪ KUMĀRA'S ŚILPARATNA."Annals of the Bhandarkar...

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Pandya, Yatin.Spatial Narratives In Traditional Indian Architecture: An...

India! The land of antiquity. India's heritage does not confine to historic accounts of the events and objects frozen in their own time and space, but rather as cultural and architectural traditions...

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Parikh, Pranali.Sense Of Identity, Continuity And Context In New Architecture...

Mass migration and globalisation have created new cultural geographies in world cities. This paper examines new cityscapes created by Indian people both in India and in Great Britain. It builds up on...

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Mubayi, Yaaminey, and Gurmeet S. Rai."Cultural Heritage As A Driver For...

The last century saw a substantial shift in the paradigm of development, from a technology-centric model evolved as a result of western industrial advancements, to a more holistic view taking into...

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Industry, Ministry of Commerc.Draft PIB note for re-development of Integrated...

Government of IndiaMinistry of Commerce & IndustryDepartment of CommerceUdyog BhawanDraft PIB1 note for re-development of Integrated Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre (IECC) Project of Pragati...

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CLARKE, JONATHAN."Like a huge birdcage exhaled from the earth: Watson's...

Long a decaying, crumbling mass of iron and brick, the edifice now known as 'Esplanade Mansions', crammed with scores of businesses and tenants, barely evokes the grandeur it enjoyed in its former...

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NERCAM, NICOLAS."Le clan des Tagore, de l'École du Bengale au Groupe de...

The contribution of the Tagore's family in the intellectual and artistic field was extremely important. In the domain of visual arts, the work of Abanindranath, Gaganendranath, Rabindranath and Subho...

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REHMAN, ABDUL."CHANGING CONCEPTS OF GARDEN DESIGN IN LAHORE FROM MUGHAL TO...

Lahore, capital of Punjab in Pakistan has a rich history of garden-making spreading over three important historical periods: Mughal (1526–1749), British colonial (1849–1947), and post-independence. The...

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Bäumer, Bettina."The Lord Of The Heart: Abhinavagupta's Aesthetics And...

Indian aesthetics owes much to the genius of Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 950–1025), whose aesthetic theory combined elements of Tantric exegesis, philosophy, poetics, musicology, and mysticism. His...

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JURAMIE, ANNE-CLAIRE."L'iconographie du temple royal de Caṅgu Nārāyaṇa...

The Garuḍa Nārāyaṇa Temple in Caṅgu Nārāyaṇa in the oriental part of the Kāṭhmānḍu Valley, symbolises the significance of Viṣṇuism in Nepal. In its current state, this royal temple dates back to the...

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Sachdeva, Sanjeev.WP(C) 2731/2017 & CM No.11840/2017 (directions), Raj Rewal...

$~8IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHIJudgment delivered on: 20.04.2017+ W.P.(C) 2731/2017RAJ REWAL ..... PetitionerversusUNION OF INDIA & ORS ..... RespondentsAdvocates who appeared in this...

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Parui, Avishek."Memory, nation and the crisis of location in Saadat Hasan...

This article explores the entanglements of memory and the crisis of location in the context of the India–Pakistan Partition in 1947, as depicted in Saadat Hasan Manto’s short fiction. It will...

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Somaya, Brinda."Bhadli Village, Gujarat: Rubble To Renewal."New Architecture...

There is no doubt that today, for various reasons, our influence on society as architects is diminishing. We have to broaden our role to affect positive change. Today, we architects have a vital role...

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Campbell, Morgan."Hampi Bazaar Demolition I: How Heritage Divides Experts and...

Despite widespread support on the importance of participatory planning and local knowledge networks, a clear boundary remains between those who make decisions about world heritage and those living...

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Campbell, Morgan."Hampi Bazaar Demolition II: How Maps Alienate...

The heritage boundary is no longer an exercise of scholarly discourse but an antagonistic boundary between human rights and world heritage.

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Dallapiccola, A.L., and Anila Verghese."The ‘Ramanuja temple’ in...

As rulers of the greatest empire of Southern India, the Vijayanagara kings consciously promoted religion and hence many cults were popular in the capital. The largest temple complexes are in the...

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Pusalker, A. D.."AUTHORS OF THE INDUS CULTURE."Annals of the Bhandarkar...

In sharp contrast to the practical unanimity as regards the date of the Indus Civilization, there is a wide divergence of opinion among scholars and archaeologists as to its authors—the race of the...

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Chaghtai, M. A.."THE PLACE OF TĀJ IN WORLD ARCHITECTURE."Annals of the...

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Romatet, Emmanuel."Calcutta's Informal Sector: Theory and Reality."Economic...

Studies conducted in the early seventies by experts of the International Labour Office on the employment in metropolises of developing countries led to a new concept that has aroused a great deal of...

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