Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management [Hardcover]

Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement Award

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 Asianin their capacity to selforganize, enact and reinvent cultural memories, and in their ability to 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.

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 (Fran?oise 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 Modernlã7