Age Group: 16–17 years
Type: Academic Field Investigation (Coursework and Essay Skill Development Aligned)
Duration: Full Academic Day
Venue: Srirangapatna • Mysuru
Learning Approach: Historical Inquiry • Political Analysis • Environmental Interpretation • Evidence-Based Reasoning
Historical Interpretation:
The role of perspective, memory and material evidence in constructing political narratives
Coursework Skill Development:
Focused research question development • Primary architectural documentation • Source evaluation • Structured analytical writing
Power, Memory & Monarchy is an AS Level field investigation examining how political legitimacy is constructed, contested and memorialised through architecture and landscape.
Students analyse funerary architecture at Srirangapatna, royal spectacle at Mysore Palace and environmental aesthetics at Brindavan Gardens to evaluate competing expressions of authority and cultural memory.
The programme supports advanced essay writing, evaluative judgement and evidence-based historical reasoning through structured field documentation and comparative analysis.
Power • Authority • Memory • Legitimacy • Representation • Sovereignty
Students strengthen:
• Critical analysis and comparative evaluation
• Primary site-based evidence collection
• Interpretation of architectural symbolism
• Structured academic argumentation
• Evaluation of competing historical perspectives
Students will:
• Analyse how rulers construct political legitimacy through architecture
• Evaluate funerary monuments as instruments of political memory
• Compare expressions of sovereignty across different regimes
• Examine landscape design as aesthetic projection of authority
• Construct structured historical claims supported by field evidence
Students will:
• Interpret architectural symbolism using appropriate historical terminology
• Construct one sustained comparative evaluation between two rulers
• Evaluate the relationship between political authority and aesthetic display
• Produce structured claim–evidence–analysis writing
• Formulate one refined coursework-style research question
Knowledge and Understanding:
Accurate application of political, architectural and historical concepts.
Analysis:
Interpretation of monuments, inscriptions and spatial design using disciplinary vocabulary.
Evaluation:
Judgement regarding effectiveness of architectural strategies in constructing legitimacy.
Communication:
Structured, coherent and evidence-supported historical argumentation.
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