ANSWER: Both
Explanation:
The endeavour of Project ‘Mausam’- Maritime Routes and Cultural Landscapes is to position itself at two levels:
1. At the macro level, it aims to re-connect and re-establish communications between countries of the Indian Ocean world, which would lead to an enhanced understanding of cultural values and concerns
2. While at the micro level, the focus is on understanding national cultures in their regional maritime milieu.
- The central themes that hold Project ‘Mausam’ together are those of cultural routes and maritime landscapes that not only linked different parts of the Indian Ocean littoral, but also connected the coastal centres to their hinterlands.
- More importantly, shared knowledge systems and ideas spread along these routes and impacted both coastal centres, and also large parts of the environs.
- Project ‘Mausam’ is an exciting, multi-disciplinary project that rekindles long-lost ties across nations of the Indian Ocean ‘world’ and forges new avenues of cooperation and exchange.
- The project, launched by India in partnership with member states, will enable a significant step in recording and celebrating this important phase of world history from the African, Arab and Asian-world perspectives.
