1st Edition
Indigenous Architecture in India Exploring Plural Lifeworlds
Introduction: Indigenous Architecture in India
Gauri Bharat
1. Studying Bachchom Bayer Ba: The Indigenous Floor Art of Kolhan
Sanjay Nath and Rinu Kumari
2. The Sacred Grove and the Livelihood and Identity of Santals
Sumit Hembram and Amit Kumar Kisku
3. Flooded Villages, Foldable Houses, and Flexible Living
Sprya Sharma
4. Decoding a Craft Habitat
Jigna Desai
INTERLUDE: Exploring Indigeneity and the City
A Conversation with Neelkanth Chhaya
5. Placing Indigeneity in the networks of glass-bangle making in Firozabad
Anjali Mittal
6. Ecological Knowledge and Everyday Life of Vagadiya Rabaris
Chintal Sharma
7. Terracotta People: Productive Tensions Between the Indigenous and the Colonial
Priya Joseph
8. Dialogue between Carpenters and Mud Masons: Cases from Telangana and Goa
Sankalpa
9. Material Culture and Change at Chota Oda
Smit Vyas
10. Community, Spaces and Environment
Manvi Seth
Biography
Gauri Bharat is Senior Associate Professor and Program Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. Her research and teaching focuses on lived histories, where she explores how built environments in the past were shaped by and in turn shaped the individual and collective lives of people. The other major focus area is histories of making, where she is working on a book manuscript on the history of reinforced concrete use in the Indian subcontinent. Gauri has published extensively and engages with both academic and non-academic audiences.
