CONTENTS
List of Figures
Research Overview
0.1 Abstract 2
0.2 Introduction 3
0.3 Purpose Statement 7
0.4 Aim, Objectives & Hypothesis 7
0.5 Relevance of the Study 8
0.6 Methodology 8
0.7 Implication of the Study 13
0.8 Scope and Limitations 13
Part 1 Tracing Grahan
1.1 Himachal Pradesh’s Story of Change 16
1.2 Villages of Parvati Valley 24
1.2.a Navigating Parvati valley 24
1.2.b Current Culture Currents 27
1.3 Situating Grahan village 42
1.3.a Identifying Places with Patterns 42
1.3.b Plotting the Parameters of Places 46
1.3.c Identifying the Patterns across Places 48
1.3.d Identifying the focussed Pattern and Place 48
Part 2 The Grahan that is
- A pattern in Landscape, Dwelling and People
2.1 Dwelling Perspective 52
2.2 The landscape that is… 53
2.1.a Mapping the journey towards Grahan
2.1.b Mapping Grahan 58
2.3 The dwelling that is... 66
Part 3 Reminiscing of the Grahan that was and is…
- Rituals of inhabiting the landscape and dwelling
3.1 Identifying the leverage 74
3.2 Rituals and processes of dwelling 77
3.2.a The rituals in landscape 77
3.2.b The rituals in dwelling 80
Part 4 Preserving the Grahan that is...
4.1 Technologies of Defamiliarisation 88
4.2 Defamiliarising Grahan’s Dwelling Morphogenesis 90
Part 5 The Grahan that could be…
- Inferencing and assuring the ‘Grahan that could be’
5.1 Inferences 100
5.2 Implementation Model 101
A. Glossary of words 104
B. Appendix 106
C Bibliography 111