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KAKATIYA HERITAGE TRUST (website)
First started in 21/02/1989
PROGRAMS:
1. Heritage Education
KHT aims to inculcate Heritage Education amongst school children, school teachers, college
students and college Professors by conducting a multitude of workshops and seminars.
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Workshops on heritage education for School Teachers, children, and college
students are regularly conducted by the Kakatiya Heritage Trust in Collaboration
with INTACH Delhi.
Annual heritage seminars at NIT (National Institute of Technology).
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2. Capacity building and Heritage Management
 The Kakatiya Heritage Trust aims to help and promote Capacity Building and
Heritage Management by inviting world heritage experts and Historians to give
regular seminars.
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The Kakatiya Heritage Trust also aims to involve youth in its various activities,
thereby helping them find out about themselves and their potential.
3. Heritage restoration and preservation
KHT is currently helping the ASI and State Government in conservation and restoration of
Kakatiaya Monuments. The Trust is planning to take up small projects of restoration of
heritage structures which do not come under the jurisdictions of ASI or State Government in
near future.
 The Kakatiya Heritage Trust is helping the Archaeological Survey of India with
technical support in the Restoration and rebuilding of Thousand Pillar Temple
Kalyanamandapam.
4. Heritage Promotion
KHT annually conducts an array of events in order to promote Culture and Heritage.
*For the detailed list of activities that KHT conducts please refer to ‘Events’ section of this
website.
EVENTS
1. PAST EVENTS
 Year 2006-2007
a. Work shop on Rain water harvesting methods (learning water conservation from the
Kakatiya’s)- 09/09/2006
b. Theatre workshop for school children in Warangal and Hyderabad regarding manuscript
awareness- 10/10/2006
c. Field visits to Kakatiya monument sites with members INTACH to form restoration and
preservation plans- 24/03/2007
 Year 2007-2008
1) Celebration of world heritage day along with Seminar on Construction Technologies of
Kakatiyas with special emphasis on Thousand Pillar Temple- 18/04/2008
2) A. Interacting with the ASI and NITW on restoration works of Thousand Pillar Temple
Kalyana Mandapam.
B. Organized Seminar on Renovation and Restoration of Kakatiya Monuments.
C. Young INTACH activities are being taken up in various schools with the cooperation of
D.E.O. Warangal.
Date- 02/10/2008
3) Vote Taj Campaign Program at Thousand Pillar Temple to appeal the citizens of Warangal to
participate in the campaign to select this architectural pride of our Nation as one of the 7
Wonders of the World
4) 10K run in honor of Swami Vivekananda’s birthday (celebrations of national youth day)12/1/2008
 Year 2010-2011
1) Kaktiya festivals were celebrated in a grand manner at the Thousand Pillar
Temple and Ramappa Temple.
2) The largest Tribal festival in Asia (Sammakka – Saralamma Jatara) was
celebrated.
3) Year 2012-2013
1) Celebrating World Heritage Day on 18/04/2012 at Thousand Pillar Temple and Interacting
with the ASI on restoration works of Thousand Pillar Temple Kalyana Mandapam.
2) Organized Cycle Rally and Seminar on Irrigation Technology of Kakatiyas on 02/10/2012
3) Opening of Year Long Celebration of KAKATIYA Festival on the occasion of 800 years of
Ramappa.
4) Listing of Monuments in district as per INTACH Guidelines
5) Interacting with state government and district administration to build Pothana Memorial
at Bommera.
6) Conducting of Heritage Education workshops to Junior and Undergraduate college
students to make them as volunteers in protection and preservation.
7) Book launch of Kakatiya Dynasty the Golden Age of Telugu Civilization by Birad Rajaram
Yajnik.
8) Book launch of Jayappa Senani’s Nitta Ratnavali was conducted.
2. FUTURE EVENTS
4) Year 2014-2015
1) Inauguration of Thousand Pillar Temple along with International convention or rock
structure and temple preservation to be held at Warangal on the 20th of December 2014.
PUBLICATIONS
9) Irrigation Technology of the Kakatiyas
Edited by Prof.M.Pandu Ranga Rao and Prof. K V Jayakumar
10) Nitta Ratnavali of Jaya Senapati
Translated by Dr. Pappu Venugopala Rao and Dr. Yashoda Thakore
ISBN 978-93-5104-992-0
Price- INR 1200
11) Kakatiya Dynasty the Golden Age of Telugu Civilization
By Birad Rajaram Yajnik
VQI production in association with Kakatiya Heritage trust
ISBN- 978-81-927072-1-1
Price- INR 3000
12) Hands on Heritage (handbook on cultural Education)
By HECS (Heritage Education and Communication Service) ITACH
13) Symphonies in Stone
By Kasibhatta Viswanadham
ABOUT US
The Kakatiya Heritage Trust is nonprofit trust that endeavours to preserve, promote, protect and
propagate the contribution made by the Kakatiyas to Telugu culture. The Kakatiya Heritage Trust
was founded in February 1989 by Sri B.V. Papa Rao (I.A.S Retd) and Professor M. Pandu Ranga Rao
(Ph.D.)
TRUSTEES
Sri B.V. Papa Rao
B.V.Papa Rao who hails from the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh joined the Indian
Administrative Service (I.A.S) in 1982 and served with Governments of Assam and India for 17 years.
He then joined the United Nations Organization in 1999.
He served seven years in Post -war Kosovo as a member of United Nations. He established and
headed the Culture Ministry of Kosovo. During this tenure, Mr Rao revamped the old Communist
administered heritage institutions like the Protection of Monuments institution in Kosovo, into
Modern Heritage Institutions with help of Council of Europe and the UNESCO.
Mr. Rao was also instrumental in developing the Heritage Policy of Kosovo in the after math of
destruction about 100 mosques and 100 churches. He negotiated some of the most difficult
agreements between the Orthodox Serbian Church and the Albanian Muslim dominated Kosovo
government on restoration of damaged cultural properties. During this time UNESCO nominated
three monuments from Kosovo as World Heritage Sites.
Mr. Rao whose life’s passion has been to protect and preserve cultural heritage and history was the
man who conceived the idea of preserving and promoting Kakatiya Heritage in Warangal district.
Dr M. Pandu Ranga Rao
Prof. M. Pandu Ranga Rao is a retired Professor of National Institute of Technology in Warangal. He
has contributed richly to water resources management, heritage conservation, education sector, and
health care.
Professor Rao has played a pivotal role in tackling the acute drought situation during 1972-73 and in
solving the drinking water crisis in Warangal Municipal Corporation. He has designed many dams
and irrigation projects on behalf of the Government of Andhra Pradesh and has earned several
awards such as the award for ‘Meritorious Service’, ‘Republic Day Honour’, and ‘Independence Day
Honour’.
Professor Rao has also played an important role as the convener of INTACH (Indian National Trust for
Art and Cultural Heritage) for twenty three years and was instrumental in preserving several
archaeological sites in India. He has also published several books some of which are ‘Engineering and
Technological Achievements during Kakatiya Period’, ‘Hands on Heritage’ and ‘Utilization of Godavari
Waters in a New Millennium’.
Professor Pandu Ranga Rao is also a social activist who has left an indeligable mark on conservation
and preservation of Kakatiya History and Monuments.
PROJECTS
1) POTHANA PROJECT
The Pothana Project was undertaken by the Kakatiya Heritage Trust to build a fitting
memorial for the Telugu 14/ 15th Century Poet Pothana. The land tilled by Pothana
was acquired by the KHT at Bammera Village in Warangal District to establish a
poetic oasis for seekers of Pothana’s writings and history. His samadhi of Pothana
and the well from which he drew water also lies in this land. The construction of the
Pothana memorial is set to take of in 2014 in cooperation with Telengana Tourism
Department.
2) THOUSAND PILLAR TEMPLE KALYANAMANDAPAM
RESTORATION PROJECT
The momentous project of restoring the Kalyanamandapam of the Thousand Pillar
temple at Warangal was undertaken by The Archaeological Survey of India in 2005.
The Kakatiya Heritage Trust has offered its technical support this restoration work.
This project is projected to be completed by December 2014.
NEWS
WORLD HERITAGE STATUSThe Kakatiya Heritage Trust has initiated the process of bringing Kakatiya Monuments in to
World Heritage List. The Trust hired the Consultant Surya Narayan Murthy to prepare a
proposal to get the Kakatiya Monuments to get Tentatively Listed with UNESCO. The
proposal was prepared in consultation with ASI and got the approval of the State
Government. The proposal was cleared by the Heritage Committee of the Government of
India and was forwarded to UNESCO.
UNESCO has accepted the proposal and Kakatiya Monuments are put in the Tentative List of
World Heritage Sites. Please see the following link
http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5889/
However, there is long way to get Kakatiya Monuments as World Heritage Sites. For
instance the Golcconda Fort was in the tentative list for over a decade but still not approves
as World Heritage Site.
The next step is to prepare a detailed dossier in consultation with ASI and Telengana
Government. The Government of India has to send the proposal to UNESCO. The GOI will
send only two proposals every year. So we have to compete nationally to get Kakatiya
Monuments to be considered by the GOI to be send to UNESCO.
There after an international expert committee will visit the Kakatiya Monuments and make
a report to UNESCO. Finally the ECOMOS, a Heritage Expert Body will vote in its annual
meeting on favour to reject a proposal.
KHT will pursue the matter till Kakatiya Monuments gets the World Heritage Site status.
been striving to achieve the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage Site status for the
Thousand Pillar Temple and famous Ramappa Temple of Warangal District.
CONTACT US
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Contact our International CoordinatorEmail- [email protected]
Ph.: No +91 7032900140
Contact our Trustees at
Sri B.V. Papa Rao
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Dr M. Pandu Ranga Rao
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