LILA PRISM LECTURES 2015: TRANSFORMATIVE GOVERNANCE

Translocal Governance of Heritage

 

Speaker: Shri Aman Nath, a historian by education.  He has co-written/authored fourteen illustrated books on art, history, architecture, corporate biography and photography,  two of which have won National Awards 

 

Chair : Dr. Ratish Nanda, Aga Khan Trust for Culture in India

 

The lecture discusses how restoring ruined architectures would mean transporting a space which belonged to a past, back to itself – but with several differences. This process of conservation provides a new and relevant context to a heritage that was nearly ruined. It brings to many Indian villages, which are cosmologically wiser, the fruits of liberal education and a translocal exposure. This mixture of times past and present, of the rural and the urban, irons out the time warp and puts people more smoothly through the Indian time machine