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THE HERITAGE<\/b><\/p>\n

We document and publish basic material of Historical Research on\u00a0aspects of Indian History, Culture and Art, including original\u00a0source material (text and translation) from Persian and Sanskrit;\u00a0bibliographies and glossaries; and critical works, with distinct\u00a0emphasis on ART – HISTORY.<\/p>\n

Since we began in 1981 at Jaipur, under the name and style:\u00a0THE\u00a0HISTORICAL RESEARCH DOCUMENTATION PROGRAMME<\/strong>, we have brought out a\u00a0number of classical titles, listed hereinafter.<\/p>\n

We shifted to Agra in 1995 and we have, accordingly, shifted our\u00a0emphasis on the study of\u00a0MUGHAL\u00a0ARCHITECTURE. Now we operate under the name:\u00a0THE\u00a0HERITAGE,<\/strong>\u00a0an organization working for promotion of the study of\u00a0Historical Architecture with emphasis on\u00a0MUGHAL\u00a0ARCHITECTURE,\u00a0supplying books, Architectural Drawings and Digital Images of\u00a0Mughal Monuments of Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Delhi and other sites to\u00a0the Institutes and Universities of Architecture, all over the world\u00a0for the last 14 years.<\/p>\n

Biodata\u00a0of Prof R Nath\"\"<\/p>\n

Professor R.Nath<\/b>\u00a0was born at Agra on 9th March 1933\u00a0in an Agarwal family who had flourishing business of cotton\u00a0durries and woollen carpets in Gujarat and at Bombay, which\u00a0enabled him to visit the monuments of western India extensively.
\nHis academic taste and innate interest in historical architecture,\u00a0ultimately led him to rejoin St. John’s College Agra after a gap\u00a0of nine years. He passed\u00a0his M.A. (History) in 1965 in First Division with First Position in the\u00a0University. He did his Ph.D. and D.Litt. on Mughal monuments of\u00a0Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Delhi, from Agra University. He taught at\u00a0Agra College and University of Rajasthan Jaipur, from where he\u00a0retired, in 1993, as Professor and Head of the Dept. of History\u00a0and Indian Culture. After retirement he shifted to Agra, his hometown, and has finally settled down at Ajmer (Rajasthan).<\/p>\n

Having studied Ancient and Medieval Indian Architecture in the\u00a0field, and worked at more than 50 historical sites as Delhi, Agra,\u00a0Fatehpur Sikri, Mathura-Vrindaban, Dig-Bharatpur-Goverdhan,\u00a0Jaunpur, Sasaram, Gwalior, Chanderi, Khajuraho, Dhar-Mandu,\u00a0Jaipur-Amer, Ajmer, Chittorgadh, Ahmedabad and Lahore, and
\nauthored 67 books, 14 monographs, 193 research-papers and 300\u00a0popular articles, during the last five decades, he is one of the\u00a0front-ranking scholars and art-historians of the country and an\u00a0authority, of international repute, on Mughal Architecture.<\/p>\n

He was recipient of several research fellowships, including\u00a0fellowship of the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council Bombay. He\u00a0delivered lectures at the Heras Institute Bombay, Fine Arts\u00a0Department Harvard University (U.S.A.), Iran Society Calcutta,
\nSalarjung Museum Hyderabad, SIAACM Cochin and National Research Laboratory for conservation Lucknow and many other premier Institutions. He\u00a0has been regularly attending or contributing papers to National\u00a0and International Seminars and Conferences on Mughal Architecture.<\/p>\n

With one book on standard terminology (glossary) and two on basic\u00a0bibliographies; five books on style, theory, sources,\u00a0nomenclature, techniques, symbolism and aesthetics; one book on\u00a0methodology and historiography; four books on ornamentation; one\u00a0book on constructional data; nine books on specific sites; and
\nfour multi-volume series and numerous papers, he has directed the\u00a0course of the study of Indo-Muslim Architecture into scientific\u00a0channel, and made it a perfect discipline, instead of a compendium\u00a0of romantic tales, fanciful anecdotes and hearsay legends. His 5-volume monumental series:\u00a0HISTORY OF MUGHAL ARCHITECTURE<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is a\u00a0classic of which first three volumes, Supplement to Vols-I-II and\u00a0Part-1 of Vol-IV have been published. He has traced the\u00a0evolutionary process of this style, point by point, and\u00a0emancipated it from sectarian and racial misnomers. The series is,\u00a0truly, his\u00a0magnum opus<\/i>.<\/p>\n

He has also studied the Krishna Temples of the Braja region, of\u00a0the reigns of Akbar and Jehangir (1556-1627 A.D) which mark the\u00a0efflorescence of the\u00a0\u2018ideas\u2019, \u2018feelings\u2019\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0\u2018skills\u2019<\/b>, which\u00a0travelled from Medapata-Gopadri (Mewar-Gwalior) \u2013 to Agra and\u00a0Fatehpur Sikri \u2013 to, finally, Vrindaban, to make up, probably, the\u00a0most creative and versatile architectural style in Medieval India.\u00a0He has also worked on the \u2018Historical Study of Architectural\u00a0Prototypes\u2019.<\/p>\n

He knows English, Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Sanskrit and Gujarati. He\u00a0has written several books on Ancient Indian Art, Architecture and\u00a0Aesthetics, based on Sanskrit texts, of which the\u00a0Art of Khajuraho\u00a0<\/i>has been widely acclaimed. It is essentially a work on\u00a0\u2018Aesthetics\u2019, on which subject his novel book :\u00a0Ideals of Indian\u00a0Womanhood<\/i>\u00a0(as described in classical Sanskrit texts and depicted\u00a0in Sculpture) is to be published.\u00a0Chittorgadh Kirtti-Stambha\u00a0of Maharana Kumbha<\/i>\u00a0(The Idea & the Form, 1440-60) is his other\u00a0classic on Ancient Indian thought, art and architecture.<\/p>\n

Architecture is a veritable chronicle in STONE. The stamp of an\u00a0age and people \u2013 their tastes, beliefs, ideals, values, standards,\u00a0achievements, ideas, feelings and skills \u2013 everything that makes\u00a0up a Civilization, is most faithfully imprinted upon its
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History of Architecture is, in fact, a faithful record of those\u00a0tender feelings, sublime thoughts and subtle ideas which go to\u00a0make a Civilization, not of those political intrigues and feuds,\u00a0and military conflicts which destroy it.<\/p>\n

It is extremely difficult to decipher the language of STONES of\u00a0the past ages, and one has to belong to the region and its \u00a0cultural milieu<\/b>\u00a0where grew the architectural style, and to its\u00a0language and literature which made it up. To be able to study\u00a0architecture of a region, one requires a life-time\u2019s training in\u00a0the field; he has virtually to live with the MONUMENT, to know it.\u00a0Without such a constituent affiliation with it, study of\u00a0architecture is as superfluous as cruising on the surface of the\u00a0sea, without knowing what lies underneath.<\/p>\n

We are sorry to state that Professor R. Nath breathed his last on 27 March 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Precisely, History of Architecture, as of any other fine art, is\u00a0made in the context of, and with reference to, the cultural\u00a0milieu, which produced it; it is history of civilization in its\u00a0most manifest form. Prof Nath\u2019s too is, essentially, a study of\u00a0the\u00a0Land<\/b>, the\u00a0People<\/b>\u00a0and the\u00a0Culture<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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\n(Retired Professor of History, University of Rajasthan,<\/strong><\/span>
\nJaipur) <\/strong><\/span>7, Gulab Bari Enclave,\u00a0 <\/strong>Gulab Bari Area, <\/strong>AJMER (Rajasthan) – 305007\u00a0<\/strong> Phone : +91 9509932229, 70144 98185\u00a0 E<\/strong>mail:\u00a0 ajaytaj@gmail.com<\/b><\/span>\"President<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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