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Importance Of Cultural Transformation In Agraharams

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Agraharams are quoted for Brahmin quarters or a village where in Brahmins live. The name agraharam originates because the village looks like a garland in which roads are aligned by houses on both sides and a temple of their village god is at one of its ends. According to the Hindu traditional practice , row of houses run in north south direction and are found on both sides of the road . They end with a Vishnu temple at one end and a Shiva temple on the other. Nowadays due to migration from these small villages into townships and movement of other religious groups into these small houses, Agraharams are vanishing slowly. The agraharam is indeed a special style settlement pattern where in people live together harmoniously as a group. These chunks of houses stacked together in which the style of living would be definitely different and the cultural heritage and the pattern of Agraharams are fast changing with the upcoming modernization and construction styles. Pattern of living in the past and present have changed a lot . People live in nuclear houses nowadays than the traditional pattern of living as a cluster. The understanding of cultural transformation in Agraharams and their acceptance will help to restore their loosing cultural heritage and the richness of their different way of life. The aim of the research is to study the cultural transformation in agraharams and evolve suitable recommendations for developing similar areas and understanding the space

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