Heritage club
What is heritage club?
The heritage club programs are designed to involve students
in various activities geared towards heritage awareness and
education on history of stone age, architecture styles, early
civilization, ancient ruling methods, how were the politics
were way people lived.
What are benefits and advantages of heritage club?
There are lots of benefits and advantages of being in heritage
club:
Every student who becomes the official member of heritage
club is motivated to participated in heritage conversation and
to learn more about their local heritage. This club can help
you understand how you became from who you are, brings
each and every one to the reality of the world which had
changed from the past.
We get ideas on where the tribes lived, how were the palaces
of kings looked alike, how were houses of other people are
designed. We also gather facts based on the ruins of buildings
and monuments built by our kings, and the lost cities.
Activities we did.
There are some activities we did which are based monuments
UNSCO world heritage sites etc., and also, I’d like to explain
about the activities we did.
The western ghats
The western ghats also called Sahyadri mountain range, tis is
a range that covers an area of about 160,000 [Link] in a
stretch of 1,600 km parallel to the western coast of the Indian
peninsula traversing the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa,
Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It is a UNESCO world
heritage site and one of the 36 biodiversity hotspots in the
world. It contains the large proportion of the country’s flora
and fauna.
Nalanda university
Nalanda University is a public central university located
in Nalanda district’s Rajgir in the state of Bihar, India. It is
designated as an institute of national importance (INI) and
excellence. The international university supported by 18
member countries was established by an act of the Indian
parliament in 2010.
Nalanda University was established to emulate the ancient
university of Nalanda, which functioned between the 5th and
13th centuries. The idea to resurrect Nalanda University was
endorsed in 2007 at the 2nd East Asia Summit by the sixteen
member countries. In 2009, during the 4th East Asia
summit, ASEAN member states including Australia, China,
Korea, Singapore and Japan promised further support. The
state government of Bihar handed over land acquired from
local people, to the university for its new campus. Chief
Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar also met External Affairs
Minister SM Krishna to receive reassurance that the Central
Government would allocate sufficient funds to the project.
The Western Ghats are older than the Himalayas. They
influence Indian monsoon weather patterns by intercepting
the rain-laden monsoon winds that sweep in from the south-
west during late summer. The range runs north to south
along the western edge of the deccan plateau and separates
the plateau from a narrow coastal plain called the western
coastal plains along the Arabian sea. A total of 39 areas in the
Western Ghats, including national parks, wildlife sanctuaries
and reserve forests, were designated as world heritage sites
in 2012 – twenty of them in Kerala, ten in Karnataka, six in
Tamil Nadu and four in Maharashtra.
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar
massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large, peaceful
crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala in Amritsar, Punjab,
British India, during annual Baishakhi fair, to protest against
the Rowlatt act and the arrest of pro-independence
activists SaifuddinKitchlew and Satyapal. In response to the
public gathering, the temporary brigadier general R.E.H Dyer
surrounded the people with his Gurkha and Sikh infantry
regiments of the British Indian army. The Jallianwala Bagh
could only be exited on one side, as its other three sides
were enclosed by buildings. After blocking the exit with his
troops, he ordered them to shoot at the crowd, continuing to
fire even as the protestors tried to flee. The troops kept on
firing until their ammunition was exhausted. Estimates of
those killed vary from 379 to 1,500 or more people and over
1,200 other people were injured of whom 192 were seriously
injured.
Taj mahal
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank
of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh India. It was
commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan to
house the tomb of his beloved wife, Mumtaz mahal, it also houses
the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-
hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest
house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by
a crenelated wall.
Construction of the mausoleum was essentially completed in 1643,
but work continued on other phases of the project for another 10
years. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in
its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be
around rs.32 million, which in 2023 would be
approximately ₹35 billion. The construction project employed some
20,000 artisans under the guidance of a board of architects led
by Ustad Ahmad Lahori, the emperor's court architect. Various types
of symbolism have been employed in the Taj to reflect natural
beauty and divinity.
