01615nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001300044653001000057653002800067653003000095653001300125100001600138245014200154856015400296300001200450490000700462520090800469022002001377       2019                            d10aDiaspora10aDelhi10apalimpsest architecture10areligion and architecture10aVassanji1 aShilpa Bhat00aDelhi, diaspora and religious consciousness: heritage and palimpsest architecture in M. G. Vassanji s A Place Within: Rediscovering India  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092341805&doi=10.1080%2f14755610.2020.1833057&partnerID=40&md5=462cecf219e065c44df8935f367c57fe  a409-4250 v203 aIntangible heritage and architecture, articulate specific cultural processes and history. In Vassanji’s non-fictional narrative A Place Within: Rediscovering India, there is place-making through the lens of culture, religion, history, politics and migration. Positioning himself as a tourist to his ancestral homeland, the author makes observations that can be critiqued through the concept of ‘palimpsest’–an intriguing ‘layering’ that gesture at wider circuits of culture. This study is an examination of the diasporic consciousness, religious encounters; heritage narrative features, the tracing of overlapping cultural spheres in Delhi, aesthetic and political tensions, as represented in Vassanji’s narrative. The article is an exploration of a broad system of cultural and religious discursive constructions and practices in architecture, as suggested in the non-fictional narrative.  a14755610 (ISSN)