Cultural Landscapes of India

Winner, 2022 J. B. Jackson Book Prize | Winner, 2022 Landscape Studies Initiative Award Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. In Cultural Landscapes in India , Amita Sinha subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. The book centers around imagining, enacting, and reclaiming landscapes as subjects and settings of living cultural heritage. Drawing on case studies from d