Banaras, The Heritage City of India: Gepography, History and Bibliography-Rana P.B. Singh-9788186569856
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Banaras, The Heritage City of India: Gepography, History and Bibliography-Rana P.B. Singh
| This book
describes various facets of geography, history and heritage of Varanasi, the
heritage city of India, on/about which a vast historical literature is
available. The section on Geography covers the general background of the
topography, climate, soils, vegetation, and human landscape. The History
section gives a general brief outline of history, from the ancient to the
modern, including a chronological chart. The issue of inscribing the
heritagescapes, especially of the riverfront ghats, on the line of UNESCO
Heritage criteria, has also been fully described. The Bibliography, by far the most complete up to day, contains 1,276 entries classified into 16 groups: Books, mostly in English; Research papers & essays; Persian works; Urdu sources; Sanskrit sources; Books/articles in Hindi; Marathi sources; Bengali sources; Published reports/ Government documents; Electronic publications; Films (English); Japanese sources; Unpublished dissertations; Unpublished reports; Unpublished reports (Varanasi: Inscribing Heritage Zones for WHL UNESCO); Unpublished (Undergraduate) fieldwork projects. This book will serve as a major resource for Banaras studies, urban history, cultural geography, and heritage studies, and can also be used as model frame for similar heritage cities in other parts of the world. |
| Book | |
| ISBN | 9788186569856 |
| PUBLISHER | Indica Book |
| Pages | 457 |
| Binding | HARDCOVER |
| Edition | 2009 |
| Language | English |
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