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Myth, Memory, and Placemaking: Reclaiming Ramjanmabhoomi in Ayodhya, India

Amita Sinha
Landscape Journal, January 2022, 41 (2) 59-72; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.41.2.59
Amita Sinha
Amita Sinha is a former professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1989-2018) and has taught in the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur, and in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at IIT Gandhinagar in India. She is the author of (University Press of Colorado, 2006) and (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). She is also coeditor of (Routledge, 2017).
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