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Banaras: Making of India’s Heritage City: 03
Author(s): Rana Singh (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 435 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443813214
- ISBN-13: 9781443813211
Book Description
Narrating the making of the Hindus’ most sacred and heritage city of India (Banaras) this book will serve as lead reference and insightful reading for understanding the cultural complexities, archetypal connotations, ritualscapes and vivid heritagescapes that maintain India’s pride of history and culture.
Editorial Reviews
Review
… In this volume, he brings together decades of careful work and makes a strong case for this great city as significant not only for the heritage of India, but for the wider world of visitors … –Prof. Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
…Only by exploring Banaras over many years, so as to uncover its multiple belief systems, cultural patterns, spatial territories and superimposed archaeological layers, is it possible to develop a complete picture like this one –Dr. George Michell, London, UK
…No other scholar knows Banaras better than Rana P.B. Singh. His interpretation of its sacred landscape that he calls mesocosm is unique –Prof. Amita Sinha, University of Illinois- UC, USA
About the Author
Rana P.B. Singh is Professor of Cultural Geography & Heritage Studies, at Banaras Hindu University (India), and published extensively on cultural landscapes and heritage planning in India, which include 180 research papers, 36 anthologies and books, like Cultural Landscapes and the Lifeworld (2004), Geographical Thoughts in India (2009), Banaras, Making of India’s Heritage City (2009).
