India is famous for its fantastic diversity, a tapestry woven from the many threads: Religious Diversity: India has a great number of religions as Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Christianity, and many more, indigenous beliefs. Religion diversities have been seen to play a significant rRead more
India is famous for its fantastic diversity, a tapestry woven from the many threads:
Religious Diversity: India has a great number of religions as Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Christianity, and many more, indigenous beliefs. Religion diversities have been seen to play a significant role in the shaping up of the country’s culture especially with religious practices; practices such as festivals and philosophies as added More to each religious belief system.
-Linguistic Diversity: It’s well known that India has +1600 languages and there are two official ones – Hindi and English. And this linguistic diversity entirely reflects some cultures and histories of the country.
-Cultural Diversity: This has been complimented by culture of Kerala from the desert sands of Rajasthan in India. All these diversities are manifested in the following ways:
-Art and Music: Yet it is a hub for assorted forms of art and culture right from Indian classical music and dance, folk music and even tribal art forms.
-Cuisine: Indian cuisine is as differentiated in terms of flavours, spices and ingredients depending on the region.
-Clothing: The traditional wear varies a lot from one area to another depending with the cultural influences.
–Festivals: India is blessed with a rich tradition of festivals that are individuals and social liberty across the country.
-Geographical Diversity: Sometimes they say that India is physically differentiated into the eight regions which includes Himalayan region, northern plain, peninsular plateau, aravali hills, desert, coastal region, eastern hilly region and Islands. It is known that variety of geographical factors influence peculiarities of cultures and ways of people’s living.
-Social Diversity: India has several social and economic classifications of people in society. This covers issues of duality within the caste system, class, and gender, of which have profound meaning when it comes to culture and society.
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India has to struggle with several challenges, including rapid growth, in terms of maintaining a rich cultural heritage: Urbanization and Development: -Encroachment: The urban growth and infrastructural development erode historical sites and monuments or results into their destruction. -Lack of InteRead more
India has to struggle with several challenges, including rapid growth, in terms of maintaining a rich cultural heritage:
Urbanization and Development:
-Encroachment: The urban growth and infrastructural development erode historical sites and monuments or results into their destruction.
-Lack of Integration Planning: Lack of proper integration planning of heritage with the urban planning implies the demolition and deterioration of such heritage while providing place for modernity.
Inadequate Funding and Resources:
The poor allocation of funds to heritage conservation projects results in poor upkeep, reconstruction, and study, where required.
The findings reveal that staffing and lack of training within employees in the heritage areas result in poor maintenance and insufficient protection.
Natural Disasters and Environmental Degradation:
Fires leave a building ‘black and white,’ but natural disasters like earthquakes and floods leave cultural heritages destroy.
This means deteriorization of heritage sites since they are affected by pollution that may include air and water pollution.
Lack of Public Awareness and Appreciation:
Tabern et al. Int (1994), opined that to most laymen of the society, cultural heritage does not have any importance, and therefore the abuses which are accorded to relics and archaeological sites by the general public.
That is the reason why many people fail to paid enough attention to such works as traditional arts and craftsmen as it results to the loss of such knowledge.
Illegal Trafficking of Antiquities:
The black market of imposing archaeological pieces not only jeopardizes the richest human legacy, but jeopardises the historical and artistic properties of India as well.
Some of the most usual ways of unlawful traffic relate to looting or smuggling of objects from the context of archaeological context.
Effect of Globalization:
Globalization is often detrimental to the old culture, it thereby becomes one and the same.
Foreign influence might on moments overpower and so demean the indigenous practices that would have otherwise been valuable.
To that end, fiscal support from government, adequate planning for the social facade of the urban society, involving the community, and harsh legal measures in regard to existing conservation laws have been recommended.
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