Coffee Table Book- Kashi Chitran: Living Heritage of Varanasi

Varanasi, one of the most ancient cities of the world, is a precious repository of cultural heritage. It is an amalgamation of spiritual and secular influences resulting from continuous historical events and settlements, carrying with it both intangible and tangible properties, social contracts and related norms of knowledge, traditions and customs. Kashi, Banaras or Varanasi assumes a complex identity stemming from the collective memory of generations of communities settled here, and the multi-dimensional cultural constructs accommodated by the city over the ages. This bilingual publication encompasses a mapping of the city by the Intangible Cultural Heritage division of INTACH, with an aim to unravel the complex and contoured elements of city life, both historic and contemporary, attaching as much value to the ancient and the authentic, as to the transitions and transformations witnessed over time.

The Publication was inaugurated by the hands of the Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice President of India at his residence on 23rd March 2021.

The Vice president, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, inaugurating Kashi chitran at his residence in New Delhi.

Co-published by INTACH and Aditya Prakashan Publishers, the Kashi Chitran publication was published in January 2021.

Under the supervision and coordination of Ms. Nerupama Y. Modwel, Principal Director, ICH Division, the team of Ms. Gunjan Joshi and Ms. Nishtha Gorke, Researchers, ICH division, worked on the project on the cultural Mapping and AV Documentation of the ICH of Varanasi (2015-2017) and the division brought out this publication as an outcome of the above mentioned project.
More information and link to the project:
http://intangibleheritage.intach.org/cultural-mapping-and-audio-visual-documentation-of-the-intangible-cultural-heritage-of-varanasi/