"From Asoda to Almoda, The Road Less Taken: Maru Gurjara Architecture in the Central Himalayas" Illustrated lecture by Dr. Nachiket Chanchani at Conference Room - 2, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 18th March 2013

Time : 6:30 pm

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Place : Conference Room - 2, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : 'From Asoda to Almoda, The Road Less Taken: Maru Gurjara Architecture in the Central Himalayas' Illustrated lecture by Dr. Nachiket Chanchani, Assistant Professor of South Asian Art and Visual Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur Sackler Gallery, Washington DC

Chair : Shri Pravin Srivastava, Member-Secretary, NMA

An inquiry trail from a crumbling stone temple whose pieces are strewn around a hillside near Almora most surprisingly leads to the hot, dusty village of Asoda in North Gujarat where a temple identical in plan, elevation and ornament stands in a better preserved condition
Second in a series of lectures which will address the shifting social, symbolic and cultural contexts of monuments, and identify current uses of sites and potential issues in their conservation

Collaboration : National Monuments Authority

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