ABSTRACT
Landscapes do not merely exist, they are made. Life histories and folk memories help in constituting them. In Ballabgarh, rural perceptions are grounded in such elements, which do not simply and mimetically reproduce the form and physical attributes of Ballabgarh’s natural and archaeological landscape. On the contrary, they actively transform what is given in the topography and archaeology. In doing so they undermine certain ‘logical’ categories of meaning that are used to depict this land, just as they challenge the established prescriptions and prohibitions contained in the dominant Brahmanical ‘Great Tradition’.
