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Landscape Concepts
by: Suranjana Datta
Landscape Concepts
“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.” Mark Twain from ‘Following the Equator’
India’s varied natural landscapes form a backdrop to the collage of her culture. The country is bordered by the snow capped Himalayas in the north, north east India is a land of rain, waterfalls, gorges and caves, in north western India lies the Thar desert, in eastern India are the Sunderbans (the largest tidal mangrove forest in the world) and southern India has a tropical climate with thick forests, lush plains and sandy beaches. (1)
The Indian subcontinent consists of a secular cultural landscape ; temples and shrines dedicated to multiple Hindu and Buddhist deities, structures of Jains, neo Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis and Indians of chinese origin who follow their own religious traditions. In this “Landscape concepts from India”, I have concentrated only on a few aspects of cultural landscapes of Hinduism.
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The cultural landscape of Hinduism is the cultural landscape of India. Hinduism is the oldest of the world’s major religions and one of the oldest extant religions in the world. It is a cultural religion, it origin is about 4000 years old. Temples and shrines, holy animals by the tens of millions, and the sights and sounds of endless processions and rituals all contribute to a unique atmosphere. The faith is a visual as well as an emotional experience.(2)
Religious procession led by elephants in Kerala, south India.
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