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The Maharashtra government has prepared and submitted a preliminary “serial” nomination for 14 forts in the state in order to seek the World Heritage Site designation.
The forts were all constructed on the theme of Maratha Military Architecture during the reign of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the 17th century. The Ministry of Culture forwarded the list to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after a serial nomination by the Archaeological Survey of India. The nominations have been admitted into the UNESCO Tentative Lists for World Heritage Site designation.
The World Heritage Convention’s operational guidelines state unequivocally that a country must send a tentative list containing an “inventory” of assets. These properties are expected to be those that a nation believes deserve to be designated as a World Heritage Site. After that, UNESCO evaluates the property and adds it to the Tent
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Principal secretary (Tourism) Sheo Shekhar Shukla says that Madhya Pradesh has become the only state in the country to get two of its sites on the coveted list.
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Tamil Nadu: This 1,100-year-old Chola hospital had beds, doctors, surgeons and a protocol in place
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Tamil Nadu: This 1,100-year-old Chola hospital had beds, doctors, surgeons and a protocol in placeBy
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The comprehensive engravings on the granite wall of Venkatesa Perumal Temple at Thirumukkoodal near Kancheepuram, located 70km south of Chennai, on the medical centre established by Virarajendra Chola in 1069AD at the confluence of rivers Cheyyar, Vegavathi and Palar has surprised archaeologists.
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(This story originally appeared in on May 19, 2021)As a raging pandemic befuddles governments of even the most advanced nations on how best to use their resources, inscription on the walls of a Chola temple, built more than 1,100 years ago, shows how the visionary kings had operated a 15-bed hospital complete with doctors and surgeons.