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Local Heritage & Cultural Mapping

Documenting Kashi and beyond.

Kashi is our laboratory. This shelf documents the mapping work — ghats, temples, lanes, institutions, and the living practices that make them more than monuments — walk by walk and album by album. The method is field documentation with sources open: photograph, locate, describe, and connect each site to the texts and communities that keep it alive. What we learn

Start here — a reading path for newcomers

  1. The Ghats of Kashi — A First Album
  2. Cleaning the Ghats of Kashi (talk summary)
  3. Heritage Walk: Sarnath & Ramnagar
  4. The Manuscript Libraries of Kashi (members)
  5. Annual Indic Warriors Conclave 2026

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Kashi is our laboratory. This shelf documents the mapping work — ghats, temples, lanes, institutions, and the living practices that make them more than monuments — walk by walk and album by album. The method is field documentation with sources open: photograph, locate, describe, and connect each site to the texts and communities that keep it alive. What we learn mapping Kashi becomes the template for every city our network reaches.