Kashi Chitran : living heritage of Varanasi / concept, coordination and editing, Nerupama Y. Modwel ; research and documentation team, Gunjan Joshi and Nishtha Gorke ; photographs, Gunjan Joshi, Nishtha Gorke and Harish Benjwal ; maps, research team and Grafiniti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joshi, Gunjan, author, photographer.

Gorke, Nishtha, author, photographer.

Benjwal, Harish, author, photographer.

Contributor:

Modwel, Nerupama Y., editor.

Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, copyright holder.

Rosengarten International Fund.

Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. Intangible Cultural Heritage Division, publisher.

Language:

English

Hindi

Subjects (All):

Arts, Indic.

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)--Social life and customs.

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)--Religious life and customs.

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)--Religious life and customs--Pictorial works.

Arts, Indic--India--Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).

India--Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).

Arts, Indic--India--Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)--Pictorial works.

Manners and customs.

India--Uttar Pradesh.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xvi, 270 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Intangible Cultural Heritage : Aditya Prakashan, 2020.

Language Note:

Includes passages in Hindi.

Summary:

Varanasi, one of the most ancient cities of the world, is a precious repository of cultural heritage. It is an amalgamation of spiritual and secular influences resulting from continuous historical events and settlements, carrying with it both intangible and tangible properties, social contracts and related norms of knowledge, traditions and customs. Kashi, Banaras or Varanasi assumes a complex identity stemming from the collective memory of generations of communities settled here, and the multi-dimensional cultural constructs accommodated by the city over the ages. This bilingual publication encompasses a mapping of the city by the Intangible Cultural Heritage division of INTACH, with an aim to unravel the complex and contoured elements of city life, both historic and contemporary, attaching as much value to the ancient and the authentic, as to the transitions and transformations witnessed over time. Co-published by INTACH and Aditya Prakashan.

Notes:

"Endpaper: Edward Lear, 1812-1888, British, Benares, 1873, watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite and gouache on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-270).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.

ISBN:

9788194538714

8194538718

OCLC:

1243020586