Complete listing

The register

Twenty-five entries in filing order, grouped by section. Every row names the region and the community that works it.

№	Tradition	Region	Worked by	Material	What holds it up, or how it is made
Water Architecture
01	Going down instead of up	Gujarat, Rajasthan and the Deccan edge	Stone-mason lineages	Sandstone, granite	Corbelled galleries and beam-spanned bays retaining the excavation
02	Vav and baoli	Gujarat; Rajasthan and the Delhi region	Stone-mason lineages	Sandstone, lime	One long axial flight, or stepped sides on several axes
03	Stepped tanks	Karnataka and the Deccan	Stone-mason lineages	Granite	Dressed courses laid dry, stepped on every face
04	Corbel and beam	Across the stepwell regions	Stone-mason lineages	Stone	Courses cantilevered inward until they meet; no true arch
Printed and Dyed
05	Ajrakh	Kachchh, Gujarat; Sindh	Khatri printers	Cotton, indigo, madder, alum and iron	Resist and mordant printed on both faces, in register
06	Mud resist	Bagru, Rajasthan	Chhipa printers	Cotton, clay resist	Carved teak blocks; fills laid first, outline last
07	Mordant and dye plants	Printing regions of the west and south	Printers and dyers	Alum, iron, madder, indigo	The mordant decides what colour the dye bath gives
08	Drawn kalamkari	Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh	Workshop painters	Cotton, iron mordant, myrobalan	Drawn with a kalam; colour fixed by mordant, not pressed
09	Workshop patterns	Block-printing towns of Gujarat and Rajasthan	Block-carvers and printers	Carved teak	A workshop is identified by its block set
Woven Cloth
10	Brocade	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh	Weaver families of the city	Silk, metal zari	Supplementary weft carried across a figured loom
11	Ikat and double ikat	Patan, Gujarat; Odisha; Telangana	Salvi weavers at Patan	Silk, cotton	Yarn resist-dyed before weaving; double ikat aligns warp and weft
12	Wool and shawl	Kashmir valley	Spinners and weavers of the valley	Fine goat fibre	Spun by hand to a thread no machine will take
13	Tapestry borders	Paithan, Maharashtra	Weaver families of the town	Silk, metal zari	Border and end-piece interlocked weft against weft, by hand
14	Looms	Weaving regions throughout	Weavers	Timber, bamboo, cord	Pit, frame and drawloom each set what a cloth can be
Temple Structure
15	Nagara and Dravida	North, west and east; the Tamil country	Mason and sculptor lineages	Sandstone; granite	A curved shikhara against a storeyed vimana
16	Between the two	The Deccan and Telangana	Mason and sculptor lineages	Sandstone, basalt	Plans and towers that fit neither classification cleanly
17	Rock-cut	The western Deccan escarpment	Excavators and sculptors	Living rock	Cut away rather than built up; nothing can be added back
18	Plan and mouldings	Across both traditions	Mason lineages	Dressed stone	The base mouldings classify a temple more reliably than the tower
Spice Regions
19	The Western Ghats	Malabar and the Cardamom Hills	Smallholders and estate pickers	Vine and understorey herb	Rainfall, altitude and shade decide what will grow
20	Dry-zone crops	The Deccan plateau and Tamil Nadu	Smallholders and graders	Rhizome, pod and seed	Dry ground, hard sun and a drying floor
21	Ground and whole	Trading towns of the south	Graders and merchants	Whole spice	Volatile oil leaves as soon as the spice is broken
22	Trade and godowns	Kochi and the port towns	Graders, sorters and merchants	Sacks, floors and scales	Sorted by size, density and moisture before it is sold
Colonial and Princely
23	Iron and arcade	Mumbai and the port cities	Contract masons and iron founders	Basalt, brick, cast iron	Imported iron carries the load; the arcade shades the wall
24	Princely commissions	Princely capitals of Rajasthan and the Deccan	Court architects and local masons	Marble, sandstone, tile	Built to be read by two audiences at once
25	Layered ground	Delhi and other long-occupied sites	Successive builders	Reused stone	Four centuries of building standing on one plot