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Water & Sacred Spaces:A Case-Study of the Ellora-Khuldabad-Daulatabad Historic Region
At Ellora, home to a magnificent set of rock-cut caves – a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1983 – the International Workshop on "Water & Sacred Spaces: A Case-Study of the Ellora-Khuldabad-Daulatabad Historic Region" was held from the 18th to the 23rd February, 2013 in the precincts of the Kailash hotel. This 5-day event represented a collaborative project spon-sored by the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organised by the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.
Situated in a semi-arid region on the Marathwada plateau in the state of Maharashtra, the three cultural sites of Ellora, Khuldabad and Daulatabad with their nearby settlements hosted, during the past two millennia, sacred centres for various religions: Buddhism, Jainism, Hindu-ism and Islam. The thematic focus of the workshop was concerned with examining the extent to which the variety of water management techniques was synergetically connected to the historical and cultural evolution of the region; thereby political state-formation, socio-economic activities as well as the efflorescence of religious cults and their edifices were ana-lysed in empirical detail whilst taking into consideration broader theoretical issues. The main aim of this interdisciplinary workshop was to conduct preliminary discussions by means of cutting-edge presentations in order to define a more extensive interdisciplinary research pro-ject to be pursued within the mandate of an Indo-German collaborative programme. [read more]
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