ASSESSING THE HERITAGE VALUES ATTRIBUTED BY STAKEHOLDERS: THE CASE OF NIRANKARI GURDWARA IN RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN

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2025-8-20

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Imran, Syeda Zahra

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Values are the reason for conservation of heritage as they refer to the meanings and perceptions of the people. Identifying and extracting values itself is a participatory practice that aims to engage in meaning making practices. It becomes even more important to take a values-based approach and include relevant heritage communities as a democratic means to bring them on the table, when the community or stakeholders in question also consist of various groups with diverse backgrounds. This thesis adopts a values-based approach to assess Nirankari Gurdwara, located in Pakistan. The case study is an example of underrepresented religious heritage of Pakistan, belonging first to the Sikhs that lived in the area before India and Pakistan separated in 1947 and miss migrations across the border took place. Having been abandoned, eventually the gurdwara was transformed into a school. Owing to the change in use, today the gurdwara carries layers of meaning and multiple stakeholder groups associated with it. Hence, the aim of this thesis is to identify these stakeholder groups and understand their values, so that the consensus and conflict in their values can be examined and can later be utilized in the management of the site.

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Values, Values-based approaches, community, under-represented religious heritage, stakeholders

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115689

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis