On Heritage and its conservation

(with a spotlight on the cities of

Madras and Hyderabad)Madras and Hyderabad)

Harish Krishna V

Muhammad Quli

Village of Chilcham, where Quli Qutb Shah met Bhagmati

Premamati and Taramati

Bhagmati

1639

Dubash

Wall tax = extortion

Elihu Yale

Asaf Jah, the Nizams

Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam

Purani haveli

OU Arts College (designed by Belgian named Jasper)

The Jacob and the Kohinoor

Pachaiyappa’s trust

Typical Indo Sarsenic architecture

Bharat Insurance Building

YMCA (Jaipur influences)

Almost all buildings still used

Surgeon Major Edward Lawrie at Osmania General Hospital

Abid

Dr Aghornath Chattopadhyay and his daughter

Rai Dilsukh Ram

Spencer’s Plaza, once the largest mall in Asia

Moore Market

Chepauk palace

Not alien to Hyderabad

Sir Ronal Ross

S Ramanujan’s house

S Bharathi

The oldest station

in the country

Karl Schmidt

Deep cracks but how?

South Mada Street

Stolen Idols

Vridhachalam

The heroes

• Narendra Luther

• V Sriram