The Hugli River of Cultures Pilot Project, from Bandel to Barrackpore

该项目的重点是五个前贸易站和驻军定居点从加尔各答大城市的Hugli河。从北部的上游到南部的加尔各答，它们是：17世纪60年代由葡萄牙人建立的Bandel，17世纪50年代由荷兰人开发的Chinsurah，17世纪70年代由法国人建立的Mallannagar，17世纪50年代由丹麦人城市化的Serampore和17世纪70年代由英国人开发的Barrackpore。它们共同构成了一个独特的丰富遗产走廊，现在只是偶尔成为国家和个别国际遗产倡议的重点。然而，没有一个国家以可持续的方式在印度建立能力，最重要的是，没有一个国家把目光投向这条河。这个项目将改变这种情况。当它在2020年1月结束时，在所有5个城市，遗产活动家将在记录和推广物质和非物质遗产方面达到国际标准，从而为第三部门团体注入活力。15个主要国内遗产建筑的所有者-监护人将记录他们的财产，参加年度节日的公民也将记录在案。将传播一项重点突出的遗产管理战略。因此，将通过在5个Hugli城市之间进行知识交流，将资源增加和人力资本建设谨慎地结合起来。正如研究助理和遗产活动家在志愿服务方面有着良好的记录一样，英国PI Magedera和CI杰克逊曾两次访问过该资源，该地区是CI Banyopadhyay的出生地，因此这些尚未登记的国内建筑的质量得到了证实（另见视觉证据）。因此，项目团队将首次从建筑学上记录加尔各答胡格利河上游的卡纳加附近的贡达尔费里帕拉加特滨江豪宅的欧洲-印度混合风格。此外，它还将利用船上的展览和研讨会来振兴Hughli，使其成为一个连接管道，使从北部的Bandel到南部的Barrackpore的所有者-监护人和遗产活动家能够获得权力。在项目23个月的生命周期内，通过非正式网络与所有者-保管人建立信任，团队成员将合作制作一个多样化的文化文献工具包，包括实质性的遗产管理战略，一小时的纪录片，建筑图纸，明信片，摄影展，记录的目击者证词，增强现实应用程序，所有这些都以学术研究为基础。这将使Hugli遗产活动家和所有者-保管人能够用当地孟加拉语（以及英语和法语）的国家和国际认可的文件和视觉材料向私营部门利益集团以及遗产项目仍处于初步规划阶段的地方和国家政府“谈论遗产”。这种信心将集中在两个新的年度胡格利遗产日- 'Huglir Oitijhyo Dibos'。前两个遗产日将在项目的生命周期内得到支持。通过与印度活动家和研究人员分享项目小组关于“花车”的移动的建筑作用的文件、花车在节日高潮时浸入河中的情况以及他们对Jagadhatri Puja的分析，在胡格利举行的为期两周的虔诚节日，（与里约狂欢节的区域影响相似，但国际知名度不高），这是通过巨大的移动的浸泡绑在河上，因为它转移的文化重心从大都市加尔各答的核心到边缘的Hugli走廊每年10月/11月。

The focus of this project are the five former trading posts and garrison settlements up the Hugli river from the megacity of Kolkata. From upriver in the North towards Kolkata in the South they are: Bandel established by the Portuguese in 1660s, Chinsurah developed by the Dutch in 1650s, Chandannagar founded by the French in the 1670s, Serampore urbanised by the Danes in the 1750s and Barrackpore developed by the British in the 1770s. Together they form a uniquely rich heritage corridor which is only now sporadically becoming the focus of national and individual international heritage initiatives. None, however, has built capacity in India in a sustained manner and, most importantly, none has looked to the river. This project will transform that situation. When it ends in January 2020, across all 5 cities, heritage activists will be up-skilled to international standards in the documentation and promotion of both tangible and intangible heritage, thus energising the third sector groups. 15 owner-custodians of major domestic heritage buildings will have their properties documented as will the citizens participating in the annual festivals. A focused Heritage Management Strategy will be disseminated. Thus there will be a careful combination of resource enhancement and the building of human capital by knowledge exchange across the 5 Hugli cities. Just as the Research Assistants and heritage activists have a proven track record in volunteering, the resources enhanced have been visited twice by the UK PI Magedera and CI Jackson and the area was the birth place of the CI Banyopadhyay so the quality of these as yet undocumented domestic buildings is confirmed (see also visual evidence). The project team will thus documenting architecturally for the first time the hybrid European-Indian style of the riverside mansions in Gondal Ferry Para Ghat near Chandannagar on the Hughli River upstream from Kolkata. Further, it will use boat-borne exhibitions and symposia on the river to revitalise the Hughli as a connective conduit to empower owner-custodians and heritage activists from Bandel in the North to Barrackpore in the South. Building trust with owner-custodians via an informal network over the project's 23-month life span, the team members would collaboratively produce a diverse toolkit of cultural documentation including a substantive Heritage Management Strategy, an hour-long documentary film, architectural drawings, a postcard book, a photographic exhibition, recorded eyewitness testimony, an augmented reality App, all underpinned by academic research. This will allow the Hugli heritage activists and owner-custodians to 'talk heritage' with nationally and internationally accredited documentation and visuals in the local Bengali language (and in English and French) to private sector interests and to local and national government whose heritage projects still in the primary planning stage. This confidence will be centred around two new annual Hughli Heritage Days - 'Huglir Oitijhyo Dibos'. The first two heritage days will be supported within the lifetime of the project. The impact of the second heritage day involving all five threshold towns will be maximized by the sharing with Indian activists and researchers of the project team's documentation of the role of mobile architecture of the 'floats' and their immersion in the river at climax of the festival as well as their analysis of Jagadhatri Puja, a two-week-long devotional festival in Hugli involving hundreds of thousands of people (similar in regional impact to the Rio Carnival, but not internationally known), which is tied to the river via the immersion of huge mobile as it shifts the cultural centre of gravity from the core in metropolitan Kolkata to the periphery of the Hugli corridor every year in October/November.