Dulari Qureshi
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Dulari Qureshi | |
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| Born | September 24, 1950 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | art historian, academic, author |
Dulari Qureshi(born 24 September 1950) is an Indian academic, art historian and author. She has written more than 1,000 articles on art, culture and tourism development and its impacts on monuments. She is a retired professor and Director in the Department of Tourism Administration,Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University,Aurangabad.She is also the Cultural chairperson of theEllora-AjantaAurangabad Festival.[1]One of her significant contributions is the discovery of inscriptions atPitalkhora[2]near Aurangabad. Qureshi is the President of Indian Tourist Congress (Western Zone).[3][4]She is fromAurangabad, Maharashtra.[4]
Biography
[edit]Dulari Qureshi is the daughter of Professor Ramesh Shankar Gupte, an art historian, author and the former head of Department of History and a senior professor inDr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada Universityin Aurangabad. Her mother Nalini Gupte was a physician.
She holds a Doctorate in Art History;[where?]the topic of her thesis being, 'Art and Vision ofAurangabad Caves'.[citation needed]She also has a degree in Journalism and a post graduate diploma in Tourism.[where?][citation needed]
Work
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Dulari Qureshi has made contributions in the fields of art, history and journalism. She has written more than 20 research articles which were published on national level in books and journals.[5]Apart from her research work, she also contributes articles, feature stories, conducts interviews of famous personalities and has more than 500 articles and other stories to her credit. She started a series of articles and feature stories on thegates of Auranagabad,their present condition which received attention on national level. More so, to promote the local culture and tourism, Dr Dulari along with Dr Morwanchikar took efforts to start the Ellora-Aurangabad festival, of which she is the cultural chairperson, which is held annually.[6]
History
[edit]Apart from being a historian, Qureshi is also a History activist. She played a major role in coercing theASIto plan and to carry out some rock-buttressing andwaterproofingworks in theAjanta Cavesalong with the chemical conservation of a few of itsfrescoes.Qureshi along with Morwonchikar, andWalter Spinkalso pointed out the blunders made at Ajanta by conservators in the past. They opined that only those frescoes in immediate danger of crumbling should be attended to by the ASI or any other national or International body working for the conservation of Ajanta caves.[7][8]
Associations
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She is closely associated with a number of organisations which are as follows:
- The Tourism Advisory Board;Maharashtra
- Executive Member; Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage
- Expert Committee onAntiquitiesASI
- Cultural Chairperson; Ellora Ajanta Aurangabad Festival Committee
- She was also Joint Secretary of the World ManagementConferenceheld in Aurangabad in October 1999
- Member of the Heritage Committee formed by the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation
Books written
[edit]- Art and Vision of Aurangabad Caves[9]
- Tourism Potential in Aurangabad[10]
- Fort of Daulatabad
- Rock Cut Temples of Western India
- Sculptures of Marathwada
- Ajanta, Sculpture, Architecture and Painting
- Encyclopedia of Hindu Temples(co-writer)
- Encyclopedia of Buddhist Temples(co-writer)
- Encyclopedia of Jain Temples(co-writer)
- Encyclopedia of Muslim Monuments(co-writer)
Books edited
[edit]- Encyclopedia on Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Islam (IV Volumes)
References
[edit]- ^Syed, Rizwanullah (3 October 2009)."Ellora-Ajanta festival cancelled. Reason swine flu".The Times of India.Archived fromthe originalon 13 November 2013.Retrieved17 November2013.
- ^Unhale, Sanjeev (4 December 1991). "Cave inscriptions discovered".The Times of India.Mumbai, India.
- ^About the authorArchived23 February 2012 at theWayback Machine
- ^ab"Sitikanth Mishra appointed ITC Chairman".WebIndia123.com.Suni Systems.Archivedfrom the original on 7 March 2012.Retrieved23 July2021.
- ^Times of India
- ^"Dulari Qureshi".MLBD.com. Archived fromthe originalon 14 July 2011.Retrieved21 March2010.
- ^TOI (19 December 2002)."ASI plans to shore up boulders at Ajanta".The Times of India.Archived fromthe originalon 11 August 2011.
- ^Das Zoya (19 January 2003)."Ajanta frescoes get a facelift".The Sunday Tribune.Retrieved21 March2010.
- ^"Book details".Bharatiya Kala Prakashan.Retrieved6 March2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^Flipkart."Tourism Potential in Aurangabad: With Ajanta, Ellora and Daultabad".Archived fromthe originalon 27 May 2012.Retrieved6 March2010.
Sources
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- Educators from Maharashtra
- Women educators from Maharashtra
- Indian Muslims
- People from Aurangabad, Maharashtra
- 1950 births
- People from Dhar
- Living people
- Indian women historians
- 20th-century Indian historians
- Indian art historians
- Historians of South Asia
- Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
- People from Marathwada
- 20th-century Indian women scientists
- 20th-century Indian scientists
- 20th-century Indian non-fiction writers
- Historians of Indian art
- 20th-century Indian women writers
- Women scientists from Maharashtra