Ikeuchi, Katsushi, Takeshi Oishi, Jun Takamatsu, Ryusuke Sagawa, Atsushi...
This paper presents an overview of our research project on digital preservation of cultural heritage objects and digital restoration of the original appearance of these objects. As an example of these...
View ArticleSheikh, Samira."A Gujarati Map and Pilot Book of the Indian Ocean,...
An unusual eighteenth‐century Gujarati manuscript (St John's College, Oxford, MS 254 (45)) that includes a grid‐line map of Gujarat, sailing directions and a list of Indian Ocean ports throws light on...
View ArticleDalvi, Smita, and Mustansir Dalvi.Dismantling Cosmopolitanism:...
This project was completed in April 2006 and submitted to the MMRDA's (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority) Heritage Conservation Committee. The project set down guidelines for...
View ArticleE. Coward, Walter."Property Rights and Network Order: The Case of Irrigation...
In the middle of the 19th century, as part of their governance of the Punjab region, the British surveyed existing property rights in Kangra District (now an administrative unit in Himachal Pradesh)....
View ArticleHasan, Arif."International Capital, NGOs, Architects and Communities: The...
Pakistan's urban areas face the same problems as other urban areas in South and South-East Asia. Two of these problems have been of immense concern to “civil society” organisations in Karachi. One is...
View ArticleSudhi, Padma."AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC STUDY ON CIRCUMAMBULATION."Annals of the...
As the source of information about circumambulation has been available in the folk-tales and folk-lores of the world, we can say that the practice of walking round an object, person or sacrifice to...
View ArticleTrivedi, Harshad."The "Semi-Urban Pocket" as Concept and Reality in...
India is a country of villages which together contain slightly over 80 percent of the total population. This fact has led many thinkers to the conclusion that problems of development and democratic...
View ArticleJohnson, Jay, and Frank Costa."Hindu Temple Development in the United States:...
Hindu temple construction has become common in suburban areas of the United States, following a steady wave of immigration from India. Immigrants hope to pass along traditional beliefs and cultural...
View ArticleKassens-Noor, Eva, and Priyamvada Kayal."India's new globalization strategy...
Developing nations increasingly seek mega-events in the pursuit of globalization. India has recently renewed such aspirations by hosting the XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010. The purpose of the...
View ArticleBhardwaj, Surinder, and Madhusudana Rao."The Temple as a Symbol of Hindu...
For overseas Hindu communities, the temple became an important symbol of ethnic regrouping. From the indentured expatriates of sugar colonies of the colonial era through the recent, highly educated,...
View ArticleChatterjee, Partha."The colonial city in the postcolonial era."Inter-Asia...
The Black Hole of Calcutta was once known throughout the English-speaking world as a dark dungeon in which many European prisoners were suffocated to death by an Indian ruler. A monument was built in...
View ArticleGeorge, Arun, Amita Sinha, and Varkki George Pallathucheril."The Goshree Road...
Kochi, the commercial capital of Kerala, is one of the busiest seaports in India, and is believed to be one of the fastest growing regions in the country. To connect the islands—Bolghatty and...
View ArticleNemser, Daniel."Eviction and the archive: materials for an archaeology of the...
This essay outlines an experimental microhistory of the founding of the Archivo General de Indias (AGI) in Seville, Spain, one that attends to the localized exclusions that characterize this...
View ArticleMaïni, Satprem."Earthen Architecture In Auroville: Linking A World Tradition...
The development of earth architecture in Auroville attempts to link the ancestral tradition of raw earth buildings and the modern technology of stabilised earth. The R&D conducted by the Auroville...
View ArticleAlley, Kelly."Heritage Conservation and Urban Development in...
This paper discusses the role a voluntary organization plays in the spatial definition and material conservation of cultural heritage in late twentieth century India. Voluntary organizations work in a...
View ArticleLahiri, Nayanjot."John Marshall's Appointment as Director-General of the...
John Hubert Marshall, one of the acknowledged figures of South Asian archaeology, presents a strange enigma. Few dispute the fact that his tenure as the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of...
View ArticleLiscombe, Rhodri Windsor."In‐dependence: Otto Koenigsberger and modernist...
This article investigates the universalist problematic in Modern Movement town planning predominantly through the Indian phase of the career of Otto Koenigsberger (1909–99). Educated in Germany during...
View ArticleLahiri, Nayanjot."Coming to Grips with India's Past and her ‘Living Present’:...
Rescuing monuments from vegetation, time and 'vandalism', especially that inaugurated by the early phase of British rule in India, this was John Marshall's main brief during the viceroyalty of George...
View ArticleBiondo, III, Vincent F.."The Architecture of Mosques in the US and...
Theologically speaking, mosque architecture is insignificant since a masjid is simply a clean, oriented, and conducive place for prayer. As phenomena in the US and Britain, however, the architecture...
View ArticleDengle, Narendra."Urbanization, Farm Land And The Form Of Public Space."New...
The process of urbanization in India has had a tremendous impact on small towns, district places, villages and the predominantly agrarian society in this country. Although the rate of urbanization is...
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