Understanding Heritage

By Dr.Yogambar Singh Farswan | Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University

Learners enrolled: 621

• This course will enable students to understand the different facets of World Heritage and its significance.

• Students will also acquire the knowledge of the importance of antiquity, archaeological sites, tangible-intangible heritage, art treasures, national and international Conventions and Acts, government departments, museums, regulatory bodies etc. related to Heritage along with Conservation Initiatives.

• It highlights the legal and institutional frameworks for heritage protection in India as also the challenges facing it.

• This course will helpful for examining the implications of the rapidly changing interface between heritage and history.

• This course will be strongly based on historical sites and monuments, therefore, at least two Projects will be provided on the Monuments/Heritage Sites as a case study.

• After completing this course the students can get the opportunity in International organizations, National agencies and Private sectors in the field of Heritage Conservation and Management.

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	6 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	15 Jul 2024
End Date :	31 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	07 Dec 2024 IST
SHIFT :	SHIFT II

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week - 1

Lecture-1 Defining World Heritage, its Concept, History, Types and Significance

Lecture-2 Defining Archaeology, Its Concept, Types And Planning For Excavation-Exploration

Lecture-3 Methods of Excavation and Stratigraphy

Lecture-4 Collection of Artefacts, their Processing and Documentation

Week - 2

Lecture-5 Intangible World Heritage: Meaning, Type, Scope and Significance

Lecture-6 Tangible World Heritage, Its Meaning, Scope, Types and Significance

Lecture-7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and World Heritage Centers

Week - 3

Lecture-8 Significance of Tangible World Heritage Sites of India with A Case Study

Lecture-9 Art Treasurer, its Meaning, Types, Scope and Conservation

Lecture-10 World Heritage Legislation, Concept and Institutional Framework

Week - 4

Lecture-11 International-National Regulatory bodies/Agencies for World Heritage Protection

Lecture-12 Museum, its Concept, History, types, and significance in protecting heritage

Lecture-13 Archaeological conservation and Preservation, its History, and concept

Lecture-14 Outdoor and Indoor conservation and Role of ASI

Week - 5

Lecture-15 Causes of Decaying of Cultural and Natural Heritage

Lecture-16 Smuggling of Antiquities. Conflict in India and Protective measures adopted

Lecture-17 Ex-situ, In-situ conservation and Institutional mechanism of natural heritage

Week - 6

Lecture-18 Geo-ecological Heritage Conservation and National Parks- Wildlife sanctuaries community reserves

Lecture-19 Heritage and people, Community ownership, and Management

Lecture-20 Application of remote sensing and GIS in World Heritage Management

Books and references

Following is the list of relevant references and web links: Essential Readings

1. Lowenthal, David. Possessed By The Past: The Heritage Crusade and The Spoils of History, Cambridge, 2010

2. Layton, R. P. Stone and J. Thomas. Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property. London: Rutledge, 2001

3. Lahiri, N. Marshaling the Past - Ancient India and its Modern Histories.Ranikhet: Permanent Black. 2012, Chapters 4 and 5.

4. Biswas, S.S. Protecting the Cultural Heritage (National Legislations and International Conventions). New Delhi: INTACH, 1999.

5. Gupta, S.P., Cultural Tourism in India, Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology, New Delhi.

6. Hussain, A.K., The National Culture of India, National Book Trust, New Delhi.

7. Jacob, R., Indian Tourism Products, Abhijeet publications.

8. Sahai, S., Indian Architecture: Hindu Buddhist and Jain, Prakash Books.

9. The Gazette of India: History and Culture, Vol.2, publication division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

10. Basham, A.L., The Wonder that was India, Rupa and Com, Delhi.

11. Timothy, D.J. and Boyd, S.W., Heritage Tourism, Prentice Hall.

12. Kabir, H, Our Heritage, National Information and Publications Ltd., Mumbai, 1946.

13. Pandey, G.C., Foundations of Indian Culture, Books and Books, New, Delhi,1984.

14. Cultural Heritage of India, Vol.1, The Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata.

15. S. Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy, Vol.1. Basham, A.L., Studies in Indian History and Culture. Sambodhi Publications Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta,1964.

16. Basham, A.L., The Wonder That Was India. Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1954

17. Durant, W., Our Oriental Heritage (Being the first volume of the series The Story of Civilization). Simon and Schuster, New York, 1935.

18. Kabir, H, The Indian Heritage. 3rd Edn. Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1955

19. Luniya, B.N., Evolution of Indian Culture. 4th Edn. Lakshmi Narain Agarwal, Agra, 1967.

20. Majumdar, A.K., and Prajnanananda , Swam i (Eds.), The Bases of Indian Culture.Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Calcutta, 1971.

21. Basham, A .L., Studies in Indian History and Culture. Sambodhi Publications Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta, 1964.

22. Majumdar, R.C., The History and Culture of the Indian People (11 Vols.). Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1951-77.

23. Barbara, T.H., Art and cultural heritage: law, policy, and practice, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

24. Leila, A.A., "Protecting Cultural Heritage by Strictly Scrutinizing Museum Acquisitions," Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Instructor bio

Dr.Yogambar Singh Farswan

Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University

Dr. Yogambar Singh Farswan is a Professor in Environmental Archaeology at the Department of History and Archaeology, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), Uttarakhand, India. He has 34 years of research expertise since obtaining his PhD degree, publishing more than 60 research papers in peer-reviewed international and national journals. He pursued his Post Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) in Advanced Training in Applied Scientific and Analytical Archaeology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA in 1994-95, supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Incorporation, 220-Fifth Avenue, New York, USA.

With over 30 years of teaching experience, he has instructed courses at the Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Pre-Ph.D. levels, encompassing topics such as: Museology and Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Geoarchaeology, Historical Archaeology, Principles and Methods of Archaeology, Scientific and Analytical Archaeology, and Preservation and Conservation in Archaeology.

Moreover, he has actively participated in over 50 international and national conferences and seminars and holds life membership in more than 10 academic and scientific bodies/societies. He has engaged in over 10 international academic visits, including to the USA, Canada, Italy, and Sri Lanka. He visited University of New England Elm Avenue Armidale Great Barrier Reef, Kuranda Forest and various other archaeological places in Cairns, Queensland, NSW 2350 Australia, during the ICAZ 2023 Conference from 7th to 14th August 2023.

He has supervised 6 students who have obtained their PhD degrees, with 3 students currently under his guidance.