I n i t i a t i v e s b y

I G N C A

M s . Ve e n a J o s h i ,

J o i n t S e c r e t a r y , I G N C A

Themes under Project Mausam

• Costal Architecture

• Cultural Landscapes of Coastal Areas

• Nautical Traditions and the Interconnectedness of

Boat-Building Activity

• Socio-Cultural Aspects of Diaspora

• Colonial Landscapes

• Intangible Cultural heritage: Rites, Rituals and

Cuisines

• Pilgrimage and religious travel

• Others/Project Mausam Resources

Great Centres of Learning:

Coastal Architecture • Temple Architecture

• Tanjavur, Bṛhadīśvara temple: The

Monument and the Living tradition.

• Seven Audio-visual DVDs, three major

monographs, interviews

• Multimedia Project at

www.ignca.nic.in/brah.htm

Cultural Landscapes of Coastal Areas

• Monograph & Visual Documentation

• Arabic – Malayalam

linguistic cultural traditions of

Mappila Muslims of Kerala

• In collaboration with Jamia

Millia Islamia University

• Documentation of “Mopla

Performing Art forms of

Kerala”

Mapila Muslims of Kerala, 1901

Source: USC Digital library.

Cultural Landscapes of Coastal Areas

• Preliminary investigations:

• Performance Traditions of Christians of

Kerala: Margam Kali and Chavittu Natakam

• The Syrian Christian Orthodox Church of

Kerala

• Lakshadweep: Island, Ecology, and Cultural

Perceptions

Nautical Traditions and the Interconnectedness of

Boat-Building Activity

• Documentary Films

• Boatmen of India Series

Goa Maharashtra Kashmir Kerala Gujarat Tamil Nadu

Stills from the Boatmen Series

Boatmen of Maharashtra Boatmen of Andhra Pradesh

Boatmen of Kerala Boatmen of Tamil Nadu Boatmen of Kashmir

Boatmen of Gujarat

Boatmen of Goa

Socio-Cultural Aspects of Diaspora

• World Ramlila Conference

• Epic Processes: Mobility, Patronage

and Aesthetics (2015)

• Ramkatha – Ankan, Manchan Aur

Vaachan (2008)

• Ram Katha Ki Videsh Yatra

• Living Traditions of Mahabharata

(2011)

Socio-Cultural Aspects of Diaspora

• “Africans in India: A Rediscovery” (2014) • Exhibition

• Curatorial Talk

• One-Day Conference

• Early Globalization in the Indian Ocean

World • Lecture by Dr. Abdulaziz Lodi

Ikhlas Khan and Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah, mid-17th Century

Source: Collection of Sir Howard Hodgkin, London.

Socio-Cultural Aspects of Diaspora

• Jews of India

• Round-table Conference (2014)

• International Symposium (2015-

16)

• Exhibition on ‘Hodu: Jews In

India’ (2015-16)

Poster art by Joseph David Penkar

Source: Kenneth and Joyce Robbins Collection

Intangible Cultural Heritage: Rites

Rituals and Cuisines

• Bali Yatra

• Director: Dr. Gautam Chatterjee

Duration: 36 mins.

• Research documentation of the

cultural dialogue between Indian

subcontinent and Bali

• Explores various elements of

Indian culture existing in Bali.

Intangible Cultural Heritage: Rites

Rituals and Cuisines

• Vishwakarma Project (2014)

• Research on the living traditions of the artisan communities of the Viswakarma in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of Karnataka

• Paddy growing cultures of India (2014)

• Documention of the knowledge systems, oral narratives, rituals, resource management, irrigation systems, pantheon of deities, cultural lexicon etc. associated with Paddy Growing Cultures.

Paddy Fields in Gobichettipalayam, Tamil Nadu

Source: Wikimedia commons

Colonial Landscapes

• Diaspora Cultural Search Programme

• IGNCA Ancestral Search Programme

• Exhibitions

– Origins: Creative tracks of the Indian

Diaspora (2007)

–Oceanic Culture (2009)

Harbour of Calcutta 1880/1889

Source: Southeast Asia Visions: John M. Echols Collections

Pilgrimage and Religious Travel

• Audio-Visual Documentation

• Pali Tipitaka Chanting: Oral Tradition of Theravada Buddhism (2008)

• Multimedia Project

• Ajanta: A World Heritage Site From Maharashtra, India

• Monographs

• Buddhist Art in India, Radha Banerjee Sarkar

• Buddhism as a Contribution to Peace in Vietnam, Cao Xuan Pho

Other Exhibitions and Conferences on

South East Asia • Cham Conference (2014) Relations Between Champa and Cambodia in the

12th and 13th Centuries

Prof. Claude Jacques

President, Hungarian

Southeast Asian Research

Hungary

ASI’s Inititaives in the Conservation of Mison Groups of Temples.

Dr. B. R. Mani

Joint Director General,

ASI

India

Cultural Connections and Shared Origins

Between Cham and Dvaravati: A Comparison of

Common Artistic and Architectural Motifs, CA.

8th – 10th Centuries CE

Dr. Stephen A. Murphy

Research Fellow,

Asian Civilisations Museum

Singapore

Spoken and Written Languages of the Cham: A

Case Study of Inscriptions and Texts Written

by the Cham in Vietnam

Dr. Thanh Phan

Associate Professor,

Vietnam National

University

Vietnam

Iconographical Features of the My Son

Sanctuary: The Cham Art of Vietnam and Its

Original Adaptation of the

Indian Culture

Prof. Tran Ky Phuong

Sr. Research Fellow

Vietnam Association of Ethnic

Minorities’ Culture and Arts, Vietnam

Was Early History of Champa Really Revised?

Dr. Anton O. Zakharov

Senior Research Fellow,

Institute of Oriental Studies

Russian Academy of Sciences,

Russia

The Preliminary Research of Hinduism

Sculptural Artifacts in Champa – Vijaya Period Found in Bình Định Province

Dr. Phan Anh Tu

University of Social Sciences

and Humanities

Vietnam National University in

HCMC,

Vietnam

• Exhibitions:

• Kanchi and Kambuja: Cultural Contacts with the Khmer Empire (2005)

• Indonesian Art through the Ages: Photographs by Prof. S. Sahai (2003)

• The Art of Angkor at the Bayon, Cambodia: Photographs by Prof. S. Sahai (2003)

• Glimpses of Indonesian Art and Culture (2003)

• Conferences:

• Conference on Indonesian Art (2003)

• The Art of Vietnam And Cambodia (1995)

• Dongson Culture of Vietnam (1994)

Other Exhibitions and Conferences on

South East Asia

Major works in the Kalāsamālocana Series

Published by IGNCA

Other Related Projects

• Rock Art • Adi Drishya Programme • International Conference on Rock Art (2012)

• Exhibition, workshops and Seminars

• Multimedia project at http://ignca.nic.in/rock.htm

• Masks of India • ‘Rupa-Pratirupa’ (1998) • Exhibition and Monograph

• Multimedia Project at http://ignca.nic.in/mask.htm

• IGNCA has a permanent collection from twenty-two countries including South Asia, South-East Asia and Africa.

Slide Collections

• IGNCA has over 50,000 series of slides of art and architecture of India and other countries from notable international and national institutions.

• These include Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, National Museum, New Delhi, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, U.S.A, British Library, British Museum, London, and many more.

• These slides have been digitized and the images are available on request.

• Kalasampada: Digital Library- Resource for Indian Cultural Heritage (DL-RICH) project

Collections of relevance to Project

Mausam • Archaeological Survey of India collection

• Lance Dane Collection

• Benoy Behl Collection

• Festivals of India, Department of Culture collection

• Ashmolean Museum Collection, Oxford

• Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO Collection

• American Committee for South Asian Art (ACSAA)Collection

• Southeast Asia and Himalayan Sculpture - Nelson Aktins Museum, Kansas City

• Southeast Asian Sculpture - Kimball Museum of Art, Forwarth, Texas

• Southeast Asia Sculpture - LOS Angles CCU Museum of Art, California

Thank you. Source: Sarath Kutchi

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