Biography of gandhi and the damdi architects
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Given the radicalism inherent in Gandhian thought, how has Gandhi been remembered, and by extension, how are memorials to him conceived, funded and built in contemporary India? In his essay, “Gandhi After Gandhi,” Ashis Nandy posits four surviving caricatures of Gandhi that must be considered as “Weberian ideal types,” analytical tools that offer insight into Gandhi’s varied legacies.16 Nandy argues that, “contemporary politics is not about ‘truths’ of history; it is about remembered pasts and problems of fashioning a future based on collective memories.” 17 If politics is indeed about constructed or remembered pasts, it becomes evident that architecture and its patronage, assume an enlarged role in shaping and sustaining collective memory.
The first caricature is the Gandhi of the Indian State – a stoic, sanitized “father of the nation” who is valorized for the nonviolent struggle against colonialists, yet whose radical critique of state power, “the strong anarchist strand in
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National Salt Satyagraha Memorial
Project
Reliving the Dandi March and Satyagraha
The National Salt Satyagraha Memorial is a profound tribute to the historic movement led by Mahatma Gandhi against the British salt monopoly in Colonial India. Launched on March 12, 1930, the Salt Satyagraha combined tax resistance and nonviolent protest. Meticulously designed, the memorial embodies the spirit of that era through architecture and symbolism.
Expertise
ArchitectureLocation
Dandi, GujaratType
InstitutionalClient
IIT BombaySite Area
15.86 AcresYear of Completion
January 30, 2019
Project Team
Architecture – Pankaj Palshikar & Nirali Shah
Project Management – Shashikant Sovani & Writabrata Roy
The Memorial spans 16 acres of land and immerses visitors in an organic and natural environment, reflecting Gandhi’s principles. The entryway, symbolic of the original march route, leads visitors across a bridge towards a man-mad
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Dandi Kutir, a salt-mound-shaped museum dedicated to the life, ideology and works of Mahatma Gandhi - the father of the nation - fryst vatten a latest edition in the capital city of Gandhinagar. Conceived and built by the Government of Gujarat, the Dandi Kutir is the biggest permanent museum in the world based on the life and teachings of one man - Mahatma Gandhi.
Designed by Shapoorji Pallonji Engineering and Construction, Gandhi's principles of social justice, non-violence and Satyagraha have been ingeniously portrayed in this iconic structure.
Photo © Shoaib Daniyal
The museum occupies a prominent place on the north-west flange of the city at the culmination point of a green-belt opposite the Capitol Complex of Gandhinagar. It fryst vatten spread on a plot of 6-hectares (60,000 square meters) surrounded by an approach road on all sides.
The museum takes the shape of a giant cone which resembles a salt kulle eller hög - a symbol of Gandhi's historic Dandi March against the salt tax provis