DESTRUCTION OF HERITAGE PLACES IN INDIA
DESTRUCTION OF HERITAGE PLACES IN INDIA INTRODUCTION : India is an ancient civilization and one of the richest nations in terms of cultural heritage—or those physical artifacts and intangible legacies that are inherited from the past and which remain highly significant to generations of the present and the future. Indeed, India’s heritage can be described as multi-millennial in age, oceanic in size, and rainbow-like in variety. After all, the ‘India’ as we know it today is a result of thousands of years of assimilating diverse cultures. This richness is visible in both the tangible heritage—monuments and other structures of historical value—and the intangible heritage comprising language, music and dance, amongst many other practices and customs. By their very nature, these physical and intangible artifacts of heritage belong to every Indian and, by extension, all of humanity. Unfortunately, India’s built heritage is under constant threat from the various natural disa...