history and culture of Mewar. On 7th May Mr. Singh visited the Museum Archives of the Maharanas of Mewar.

Mr. Raghavendra Singh, Mr. M.L. Shrivastava and family at The Manek Chowk, The City Palace, Udaipur

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The Hegemony of Heritage: Ritual and the Record in Stone

Author: Dr. Deborah Stein, USA

This book makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. This book offers new and extremely valuable insights into these important monuments, illuminating the entangled politics of antiquity and revealing whether a monument's ritual record is affirmed as continuous and hence hoary or dismissed as discontinuous or reinvented through various strategies.

Front cover of the book
'The Hegemony of Heritage: Ritual and the Record in Stone'

OBITUARY

Rashtrakavi Shri Balkavi Bairagi
10 February 1931 - 13 May 2018
Rashtrakavi Shri Balkavi Bairagi, one of the country's popular writers, passed away at 87 years of age, at his residence in Manasa, Madhya Pradesh. He was active in the political world along with literature and remained a Member of Parliament. He was popular on Hindi poetry forums.

He was born on 10 February 1931 in Rampur village. He honored with many awards. Among his major compositions were 'Gaurav-Geet,' Dard Diwani, 'Two Took', 'Prospective Guardian of the country' etc. He was honored by the Madhya Pradesh government for the award of Poet Pradeep.

Mr. Nand Ram Das popularly known as Rashtriyakavi Shri Balkavi Bairagi presided Maharana Mewar Foundation Annual Awards Distribution Ceremony since 2010. He was not only a great patriotic poet and appositive thinker, but also a great social reformer and motivator of youth. His contribution towards spreading a message of communal harmony and undertaking nation-building activities have been widely applauded. He was involved in various social welfare and educational activities and was celebrated for his straight forward statements in Parliament. He was a scriptwriter for documentary film; written songs and dialogues for Hindi films. He was the author of more than two-dozen books including poetry. He contributed to a number of leading newspapers and magazines.

Our deepest, heartfelt condolence
in remembrance from us all at
Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation, Udaipur