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AIIS awarded US Ambassador's fund for cultural preservation
AIIS will receive $153,000 for the project, which will last two years.
AIIS receives from CHC / Image AIIS
The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) has been awarded a US Ambassador fund for cultural preservation grant for the project “India: Documentation of 16th-17th-Century Mughal monuments on the Grand Trunk Road” at the US State Department’s Cultural Heritage Center (CHC).
AIIS will receive $153,000 for the project, which will last two years. The project will be carried out by the AIIS Center for Art and Archaeology, under the leadership of Dr Vandana Sinha and Dr Susan Bean.
The project will document approximately 60 monuments at historic sites along the Grand Trunk Road and record oral history by interviewing local communities to explore their connections to the built heritage with which they live, a release said.
These monuments survive along a 16th-century imperial highway which was divided about 75 years ago by the partition of the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent in August 1947 and which now exists in fragments on both sides of the Line of Control in India and Pakistan.
This project will create a free, globally accessible online digital research resource on this highway which has never been documented in its entirety.
According to a release by AIIS this year CHC received a total of 141 AFCP proposals from around the world and 28 were selected. The AIIS project was the top-ranked project from India.
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