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Examine the impact of heritage tourism on urban socio-spatial patterns in India.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

To build the Kashi Vishwanath Dham corridor in Varanasi, about five acres of one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited urban fabrics was cleared, some three hundred properties acquired and demolished, and more than forty shrines buried inside those houses revealed; phase one opened in December 2021. Heritage tourism in India is thus not merely…

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  • The policy apparatus
  • Socio-spatial consequences
  • The other side of the ledger
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