WHAT DOES HERITAGE MEAN? Ever wonder what your heritage is? Well, if you look back at where your great great grandparents came from you would understand the heritage of your family. It is the customs, traditions, and ways that people believe and is handed down from generation to generation.

CULTURE HERITAGE Cultural Heritage refers to the cultural legacy inherited from previous generations, a legacy which we often want to identify and preserve because it reinforces our cultural identity or sense of who we are as a people. Cultural Heritage is typically associated with a particular people or group. It includes, for example, the French, German, Scotch-Irish, Amish-Mennonite, African American, Hispanic, and Native American heritages of Missouri. Cultural heritage may be tangible and include archaeological sites, artifacts, buildings, historic sites, monuments, graves, and culturally significant landscapes such as sacred places. It may also be intangible, as in language, oral histories, beliefs, practices, rituals, ceremonies, customs, traditions, music, dance, crafts, and other arts. Communities and nations are interested in celebrating and preserving their heritage, and governments have enacted laws to protect “cultural resources.” Heritage professionals are engaged in the identification, study, assessment, preservation, interpretation, management, and promotion of historic and cultural resources. They help communities preserve their heritage and comply with laws and regulations to protect and preserve cultural resources. Heritage professionals come from several fields of study, including history, anthropology and archaeology, folklore, architectural history, art history, and museum studies. In the U.S., this interdisciplinary profession is often referred to as Cultural Resource Management or CRM.

HISTORY OF CHANDIGARH After the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947, the former British province of Punjab was also split between India and Pakistan. The Indian state of Punjab required a new capital city to replace Lahore, which became part of Pakistan during the partition.[9] After several plans to make additions to existing cities were found to be unfeasible for various reasons, the decision to construct a new and planned city was undertaken. Of all the new town schemes in independent India, the Chandigarh project quickly assumed prime significance, because of the city's strategic location as well as the personal interest of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. Commissioned by Nehru to reflect the new nation's modern, progressive outlook, Chandigarh was designed by the French (born Swiss) architect and urban planner, Le Corbusier, in the 1950s. Le Corbusier was in fact the second architect of the city, after the initial master plan was prepared by the American architect-planner Albert Mayer (planner) who was working with the Polish-born architect Matthew Nowicki.[citation needed] On 1 November 1966, the newly formed Indian state of Haryana was carved out of the eastern portion of the Punjab, in order to create Haryana as a majority Hindi-speaking state (with a Hindu majority), while the western portion of Punjab retained a mostly Punjabi language-speaking majority (with a Sikh majority) and remained as the current day federated state of Punjab. However, the city of Chandigarh was on the border, and was thus created into a union territory to serve as capital of both these states.[10] Recently, political groups such as the Akali Dal have argued that Chandigarh should become solely the capital of Punjab.

PUNJAB N HARYANA HIGH COURT

GANDHI BHAWAN PUNJAB UNIV

CHANDIGARH ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM

NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM