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Survey, Inspection, Assessing Deterioration and Preparation of Status Reports

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Course Type Course Code No. Of Credits
Foundation Core

Title of the Course:    Survey, Inspection, Assessing Deterioration and Preparation of Status Reports

Objective of the course

The course offered multi-disciplinary study of Cultural Heritage for preserving, documenting, and building upon a philosophic and scientific understanding of built heritage.  Indian Knowledge Systems that will guide the development and implementation of programs for the diffusion of indigenous   traditional technique and contemporary knowledge.

Learning outcome

 It education programs,  enabling them to evolve practices and technologies, in ancient built structure, and assessment the   growth and development. It deals the methods and techniques correlation of ancient text  as “Sulba-sutras”, and Vishnudharmottara puran”.

Students begin to practical work out ‘a conditional status report  and research plan for the conservation of monuments and historic buildings.

 

Modules-1: Factors effecting the monuments and buildings.

Study of  Indian Cultural Built Heritage assessing types of aggressors, as natural and manmade causes.    Practical identifications of environment as well as factors,  which are affecting the monuments.

Modules-2: Inspection and Survey of Ancient Buildings / Monuments

This module will introduce the student to the concept and types of survey  and their historical development in ancient text .

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Modules-3: Structural Surveys, Recording and Photography

Students pursue the practical assessments in a visual and technical manner in order to assess and discover Bharatiya culture in all its beautiful diversity.

Modules-4: Documentation and Technical Study of Material

  This module emphasis scientific the technical   documentation of Cultural property as provenance, authentication, fakes and  forgeries.  It includes knowledge from ancient India and, its successes and challenges on scientific scale.

Modules-5:  Basics of Financial Management

The module accelerates the financial estimation and management of Monument for conservation of Cultural property

 

 Consolidated Reading List-

  1. Agrawal, O. P. & Shashi Dhawan (ed.): Bio-deterioration of Cultural Property, New Delhi, 1991.
  2. Batra, N.L.: Heritage Conservation, Preservation and Restoration of Monuments, New Delhi, 1997.
  3. Ashurst, John & Nicola Ashurst: Practical Building Conservation, Vol. I. London.
  4. Agrawal, O. P. (ed.) : Conservation in the Tropics, Rome
  5. Agrawal, O. P. & Shashi Dhawan (ed.):  Bio-deterioration of Cultural Property, New Delhi, 1991.
  6. Allchin, B.,: Conservation of the Indian Heritage, F.R. Allchin & B. K. Thapar, New Delhi. 1989.
  7. Andre, Jean Michel: The Restorer’s Handbook of Sculpture, New York.
  8. Ashurst, John : Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone, Vol. I, Routledge,1998.
  9. Ashurst, John : Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone, Vol. 2,F. G. Dimes Oxford. Routledge,1998.
  10. B. N. Dutta : Estimating and costing in civil Engineering,Delhi,2020.
  11. Batra, N.L.: Heritage Conservation, Preservation and Restoration of Monuments, New Delhi,1996.
  12. Bahn Paul : Archaeology Theories & Method and Practice,1977.
  13. Brommelle, N. S Garry Thomson and Perry Smith (eds.): Conservation within Historic Building, London.
  14. Campbel. B. James : Introducing to remote sensing,1993.
  15. Cleere, Henry (ed.): Approaches to the Archaeological Heritage, Cambridge.
  16. Cooper, Martin (ed): Laser Cleaning in Conservation, Oxford.
  17. Feilden, Bernard: Conservation of Historic Buildings, Routledge, London,1994.
  18. Feilden, Bernard : Guidelines for Conservation A Technical Manual, New Delhi,2007.
  19. Henry, Cleere (ed.): Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World, Routledge,1990.
  20. Hester, R. Thomas,: Field Methods in Archaeology, California,2009.
  21. Robert F. Heizer and John  A. Graham Horce, C. V., : Materials for Conservation, Organic Consolidants, Adhesives and Coatings. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1986.
  22. Joukowsky, Martha : A Complete Manual of Field Archaeology,  Prentice-Hall, 1980.
  23. Lakshmana, Murthy, K.: Structural Conservation of Monuments in South India, Delhi,1997.
  24. Lang Janet  : Radiography of Cultural Material, Routledge ,2005.
  25. Marshall, John : Conservation Manual, Calcutta, 1923.
  26. McKee, Haeley J. (complied by) :Recording Historic Buildings, Washington.
  27. Paul J. Gibson and Clare. H. Power : Introductory remote sensing, Routledge,2000.
  28. Rangwola, S. C : Elements of Estimating and costing, Anand,Delhi,2021
  29. Richard Harrison (ed.) : Manual of Heritage Management, Taylor & Francis, 1994.
  30. Seshadri, A. K. : Conservation of Monuments in India, Delhi,1997.
  31. Singh, Gurcharan & Jagdish Singh: Building Planning Designing and Scheduling, Delhi,2020.
  32. Singh, Gurcharan & Subash Chander: Civil Engnrieering Drawing, Delhi,2010.
  33. Sykes Meredith H: Manual on Systems of Inventorying immovable Cultural Property, UNESCO, 1984.
  34. Chandra, Satish: History of Architecture and Ancient Building Material in India, TBI,2003.
  35. Kramrisch Stella; The Vishudharmottara puran, Calcutta University Press,1928.
  36. Thibaut, George: "On the Śulvasútras". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1875.
  37. Sen, S.N.; Bag, A.K.: The Śulba Sūtras of Baudhāyana, Āpastamba, Kātyāyana and Mānava with Text, English Translation and Commentary. New Delhi,1983.

 

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