India

Tauchen Sie ein in den Reichtum von Indiens kulturellem Erbe! Reisen Sie mit uns zum Tadsch Mahal, nach Rajasthan, zu den Klöstern von Goa und in den Großen Himalaya-Nationalpark. Schwelgen Sie in den farbenprächtigen Bildern von buddhistischen Heiligtümern, Hindu-Tempeln, opulenten Palastanlagen, sinnlichem Skulpturenschmuck und atemberaubenden Naturlandschaften.
Die lange und vielschichtige Geschichte des Landes mit seiner Vielfalt an Gemeinschaften, Religionen und Kunsthandwerken hat einen unvergleichlichen Facettenreichtum an Kulturstätten hervorgebracht – von der Frühzeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, von Tempelbauten, Grabmälern, Stufenbrunnen bis hin zu ganzen Stadtanlagen wie Jaipur werden sie mit Steckbrief und erläuternden Texten in großformatigen Fotografien vorgestellt.
World Heritage Sites:
• Agra Fort, Uttar Pradesh
• Ajanta Caves, Maharashtra
• Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara at Nalanda, Bihar
• Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh
• Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, Gujarat
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Maharashtra
• Churches and Convents of Goa
• Elephanta Caves, Maharashtra
• Ellora Caves, Maharashtra
• Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh
• Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area, Himachal Pradesh
• Great Living Chola Temples, Tamil Nadu
• Group of Monuments at Hampi, Karnataka
• Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu
• Group of Monuments at Pattadakal, Karnataka
• Hill Forts of Rajasthan
• Historic City of Ahmadabad, Gujarat
• Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi
• Jaipur City, Rajasthan
• Kaziranga National Park, Assam
• Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan
• Khajuraho Group of Monuments, Madhya Pradesh
• Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim
• Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya, Bihar
• Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam
• Mountain Railways of Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal
• Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks, Uttarakhand
• Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
• Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat
• Red Fort Complex, Delhi
• Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh
• Sun Temple, Konârak, Odisha
• Sundarbans National Park, West Bengal
• Taj Mahal, Uttar Pradesh
• The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, Chandigarh
• The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
• Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
• Western Ghats in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra

Dr. Shikha Jain has worked on several nomination dossiers for India and other Asian countries. She was Member Secretary of the Advisory Committee on World Heritage Matters to the Ministry of Culture, India, from 2011-15, during its elected term in the World Heritage Committee. She has worked as a consultant to UNESCO New Delhi on specific missions. She is currently Asia-specific Coordinator for ICOFORT, ICOMOS; UNESCO Visiting Fellow at C2C, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun; Haryana State Convener of INTACH and Founder Director, DRONAH. She has a post-graduate degree in Community Design and Preservation from Kansas University, USA and a doctorate in architectural history from De Montford University, UK. Vinay Sheel Oberoi is a retured IAS Officer, of the 1979 batch of the Assam-Meghalaya Cadre. Oberoi also served as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO from 2010 to 2014. He was the Secretary to the Government of India in the Union ministries of Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development as well as the Ministry of Women and Child Development. More recently, he is involved in an advisory role on several Central Ministry Government Committees. He has a post-graduate degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Rohit Chawla is one of India's leading contemporary photographers. As the erstwhile Group Creative Director for the India Today Group and Open magazine, he has conceptualised and photographed over 300 magazine covers. He has had several solo exhibitions across the world and has also done three coffee table books.