As per the ICOMOS Charter on the Built Vernacular Heritage (1999), “Vernacular building is the traditional and natural way by which communities house themselves. It is a continuing process including necessary changes and ...

This work is about the very important part of our life ‘water’ and the most secluded part also, and it talks about community who knows the importance of water, they harvested it will their skills, technique and they used ...

Hammam is a distinct building typology that was introduced during Indo-Islamic era and became a major socio-cultural institution. Their different locations in the city indicate that hammams were intended for the royals as ...

Various civilizations all over the world depended on water routes along with land for military expansion and trading. India, because of its strategic geography, acted as a transit between eastern and western waterways. ...

This Thesis aims at mapping this Festival's ritualistic landscape, exploring the multiple layers in which it manifests in the urban form - the points of significance, associated spaces, ritual actors, agents, events and ...

Vrindavan has been an integral part of the sacred region of Braj – the land associated with the pastimes of Lord Krishna. After the rediscovery of the Braj region By Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the 16th century, some major ...

Each culture and era have their distinctive style of art and architecture and their unique representation of ideologies. In this context, Hindu temples have their own paradigm of their own knowledge, culture, art, architecture. ...

Association of Culture, its influence and spread over the substantial period of the time can be well justified by studying tangible/intangible resources which exist either in the form of art, architecture, literature, ...

Archaeological discoveries and excavation at Sirpur, (a small village, spread over an area around 3.2 Sq. Kms, situated on the banks of river Mahanadi in Mahasamund District of Chhattisgarh), has attracted the attention ...