Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) is observing ‘World Heritage Week’ from November 19 to November 25, 2013. In this sequence a special visit to ‘Bhopal Gallery’ at Manav Sanghralaya was organised on Thursday.
Centuries ago Bhopal was a Gond village that was surrounded by thick forest and a number of other Gond villages in the neighborhood.
The exhibition had been envisaged with an objective to acknowledge the architectural and urban heritage of the historical city of Bhopal and to invoke the traditional knowledge systems embedded in the living tangible and intangible heritages of Bhopal. The earliest reference to the city is found as a separate state in Ashoka’s empire.