Upcoming projects m-Heritage DEF now plans to expand it e-Heritage We also have 'm-Heritage Shahjahanabad' horizon to include Jahanpanah and mobile applicaon that has been designed to Shikhawa. give users a unique experience while vising the Walled City. The app can be downloaded on Android devices and used to navigate through Jahanpanah: the streets, lanes and by-lanes of Shahjahanabad. Using the app one can explore Built in the 1300s by Muhammad bin the ancient culture and tradion of the city, and Tughlaq, Jahanpanah is the fourth medieval even upload content, tag and share city of Delhi. Nestled in the heart of South photographs across various social media Delhi, Jahanpanah stretches from Hauz Khas plaorms. You can download the app by to Sheikh Sarai and covers many other areas scanning the QR code. around it. Some of the key monuments of Jahanpanah include Vijay Mandal Fort, Begumpur Masjid, Serai Shahji Masjid, Jharoke Wali Masjid, Jahanpanah Forest and many more such places. However, the communies living around these areas are not much aware of the history amid which they’re living or its significance. This is where the e-Heritage Project comes into picture. We soon plan to start the Jahanpanah Fellowship to involve the local community in the preservaon and documentaon of their Digital Empowerment Foundaon heritage. House No. 44, 2nd & 3rd Floor (Next to Naraina IIT Academy) Kalu Sarai, New Delhi – 110016 Tel: 91-11-26532786 / Fax: 91-11-26532787 Email: def@defindia.net, URL: www.defindia.org Shikhawati: Shekhawa is a region in Rajasthan with an abundance of finely executed frescoes in havelis, temples, cenotaphs, shops, sarais and water tanks. With such large Shahjahanabad website: www.olddelhiheritage.in concentraon of painted structures, the Chanderi website: www.chanderiheritage.in region is rightly referred to as an open air art gallery. The project will take visitors through the region of the famed merchants of Shekhawa who patronised the art of fresco making. DEF India The e-Heritage Project: Digitally Enhancing India's Heritage About The e-Heritage Project Shahjahanabad Chanderi

Almost every Indian city is replete with rich In 1600s, when Emperor Shah Jahan Located in Madhya Pradesh, the town of culture, tradions, sacred spaces and decided to shi the Mughal capital from Chanderi encompasses within itself historical sites that illustrate the country's Agra, he decided to build a walled city on several layers of cultural efflorescence. unique heritage. At a me of rapid the banks of Yamuna. Today, we know that Divided into outer and inner secons, modernisaon of public spaces in India — city as Old Delhi or Purani Dilli. So far, the the town is composed of a labyrinth of somemes to the detriment of heritage sites studies on the history of Old Delhi and the lanes, full of archaeological remains, and cultural tradions — it becomes crical Mughal empires have been conducted both religious and secular, beckoning one to preserve the real heritage, making it mostly by academics or travellers, with to unravel the realms of the historical accessible to all for the sake of posterity. This minimal parcipaon of the local fabric that envelops it. is all the more important because oen those communies. The e-Heritage Project was started in living around such sites of heritage and The e-Heritage Project, thus, aims to involve Chanderi in 2013 to give digital presence cultural importance are unaware of its the local community in documenng the to the many monuments in the town by significance and even its name. Since most heritage and oral history of Shahjahanabad. documenng the stories behind them heritage sites are not featured online, the e- For the same, we started a fellowship for and publishing the same on Heritage Project seeks to collaborate with youngsters from Old Delhi and heritage www.chanderiheritage.in communies to bring heritage and oral enthusiasts from New Delhi to carry out This online visibility of the heritage of history into the digital space with the research on 60 topics that included several Chanderi played a key role in the following objecves: havelis, koochas, katras, markets, fesvals, decision of the Archaeological Survey of personalies and cuisines of Old Delhi with India (ASI) to undertake the preservaon Ÿ Build capacity of the local community to significant reference to the Mughal era. and protecon responsibilies of 40 document heritage in their area Their research is available on monuments in Chanderi. A boom in Ÿ Educate and involve the local www.olddelhiheritage.in. As part of the tourism can also be credited to the e- communies in the preservaon of research, team DEF also regularly organises Heritage Project in Chanderi. heritage sites, both physically and various events and acvies in Old Delhi to virtually involve the community, besides video Ÿ Ulise the Internet as an informaon interviewing residents, researchers and plaorm for public educaon about the observers of Old Delhi. Indian heritage In an endeavor to achieve the same, Digital Empowerment Foundaon in partnership with UNESCO India has launched two pilot websites for Shahjahanabad and Chanderi to digitally enhance their heritage and showcase the potenal of the areas through rich text, beauful photographs and interesng videos.