A FUTURE FOR THE PAST? 51 and concerned authorities to the damage being caused to cultural property of the nation by developmental agents. For its Resolutions on Bagh and Edakkal, see Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 45th Session, Annamalainagar, 1984 (1985), pp.943-4 and Ibid., 47th Session, Srinagar Q&K), 1986 (1987), Vol.1, p.719. The Kakatiya temples (llth-12th centuries) in Andhra Pradesh are in ruins due to ageing, wanton destruction, negligence and environmental degradation (Cf. M. Panduranga Rao and others, Geotechnical Appraisal and Evaluation of Kakatiya Monuments, Warrangal (AP), mimeographed). 38. For details, see K.M. Shrimali, 'Environmental Stewardship for Protecting Cultural Heritage', in R.B. Jain, ed., Environmental Steimrdship and Sustainahle Development, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, New Delhi, 1997, pp.224-5. 39. "Archaeological Heritage and Protection of Ancient Monuments in East and West", Colloquium held on the occasion of the meeting of the Permanent Council of International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences held at Zurich on 25 August, 1994. For a summary Report of the Colloquium, see Bulletin of the XIII Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, No.3, February 1995. 40. Cf. Alf Hatton, 'The Legislation and Institutional Context: Museums' in Richard Harris on, ed., op.cit., pp. 157-70. 41. For the identification of major problems or processes distancing us from the past arising out of insights into human behaviour obtainable from artefacts, see Jonathan Drake, 'Defining and Recording the Resource: "Artefacts", in Richard Harrison, ed., op. cit., pp. 101-16. 42. Twilight Memories, Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia, Routledge, London and New York, 1995, p. 15. 43. Thus, for example, commenting on the 1938 reconstruction of Pennsbury, the home of William Penn near Philadelphia, Leicester Holland, a leading historic preservation scholar wrote: "Our current practice of neglecting our historic records, while substituting sentimental pictures of an imaginary past is an expression of cultural callousness, if not stupidity: the result is an interpretation based on known facts but still it remains a myth, poem, if you like, but certainly,y not history." Quoted by John H. Jameson Jr. and William J. Hunt Jr., N Reconstruction vs Preservation-in-Place in the National Park Service', paper presented (mimeographed) at the 3rd Session of the World Archaeological Congress held at New Delhi in 1994 and included in the Theme Volume: x Cultural Property, Conservation and Public Awareness/ 44. Bulletin of the XIII Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, 1994, No.2, July, pp.105-7 and Michael Tierney in The Indian Express, 6, December, 1994. 45. For a comparable situation which developed in Greece in December 1994 and continues till this day, see Charles Stewart, Immanent or Eminent Domain? The Contest Over Thessaloniki' s Rotunda', paper (mimeographed) presented at the World Archaeological Congress Inter-congress on 'The Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property* held at the Island of Brae in Croatia in May, 1998. The paper specifically draws a comparison between the developments in Ayodhya and Thessaloniki. For a unique example of the resolution of strife-prone situations in multi-cultural and multi-religious societies, see John Edwards, 'The Use of Worship Space in Roman and Medieval Cardoba' , paper (mimeographed) that was also presented at the aforesaid Congress of the WAC.