Cultural Landscapes of South Asia : Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management / Edited By Kapila D. Silva, Amita Sinha

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Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design series. Series editor: Terry Clements ; Vol. 6Publication details: London, NY Routledge 2017Description: 276p 24cmISBN:

9781138601574

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CONTENTS: --- Prologue: Imagining the Future of Conservation in South Asia (Rahul Mehrotra) --- Introduction (Amita Sinha) --- Part I: Reimagining South Asian Cultural Landscapes --- 1. Conservation of Cultural Landscapes in Bhutan (Françoise Pommaret) --- 2. Blurring Boundaries and Moving Beyond the Tangible/Intangible and the Natural/Cultural Classifications of Heritage: Cases from Nepal (Neel Kamal Chapagain) --- 3. Cultures of the Landscape: A Paradigm of Enriching Diversity Un-recognized in the World Vision of Heritage in Pakistan (Anila Naeem) --- Part II: South Asian Historic Urban Landscapes --- 4. The South Asian Shahar: Reimagining Shahariyat as Urban heritage (Jyoti Pandey Sharma) --- 5. The Historic Urban Landscape of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh (Farhana Ferdous) --- 6. ‘All the world coming and going’: the past and future of the Grand Trunk Road in Punjab, India (Manish Chalana) --- 7. The Modernist Historic Urban Landscape of Islamabad, Pakistan (Farhan Karim) --- Part III: The Intangible Heritage in Cultural Landscapes --- 8. The Landscape Theatre of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka: Interaction of the Regal, Natural and Agricultural Landscapes (Nilan Cooray) --- 9. The symbolic authenticity of Kandy, Sri Lanka (Kapila D. Silva) --- 10. The Cultural Landscape of Pohela Boishakh Festival and the Making of a National Identity in Bangladesh (Nubras Samayeen and Sharif Shams Imon) --- 11. Tourism, Liquid Modernity and Bhutanese Traditional Festivals (Wantanee Suntikul) --- Part IV: Managing Cultural Landscapes --- 12. Bhaktapur, Nepal: Heritage Values and Conservation Practices (Kapila D. Silva) --- 13. Getting the City Back to its People: Conservation and Management of Historic Ahmedabad, India (Debashish Nayak) --- 14. The Public Realm of Heritage Sites in India: Sustainable Approaches Towards Planning and Management (A mita Sinha) ---15. Grounded Speculations on Cultural Landscape Conservation (Amita Sinha) --- Epilogue: Prospects for Conserving South Asian Cultural Landscapes (Kapila D. Silva)

Summary: The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are, at their core, South Asian- not only in their capacity to self-organize and enact, but in their ability to reinvent cultural memories and retain an intimate connection with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage, its potent use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global policy frameworks.

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The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are, at their core, South Asian- not only in their capacity to self-organize and enact, but in their ability to reinvent cultural memories and retain an intimate connection with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage, its potent use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global policy frameworks.

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