today we visited the American Institute of Indian Studies which is an Institute which is completely dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Indian culture, heritage and all studies, and helps in building and promoting intellectual engagement with India in American colleges and universities.
It is mainly a archive centre and library, containing archives of pictures of mainly architecture. The library had more than 5000 books about different things.
The experience to visit and explore the library was very interesting and fun and a very good learning experience for me. This is a very good way for all researchers and interested people to gain knowledge and get information about anything at all.
When we went to the library we got a lot  information out of books and archives, about our previous visits to Sultan Ghari and the Gahria Lohars, by the great library system which made it fun!
I took a few pictures which highlighted our experience at the American Institute of Indian Studies-

GADIA LOHAR- PICTURES

VISITING THE GADIA LOHARS

As a part of the heritage sangha group we visited the people of Gadia Lohar. We met their families, interacted with them and asked them about their lifestyle. We talked to them and asked them various questions about their lives and their work. They have their own family business in which they work with iron and make utensils etc. The smaller kids watched them while the older ones helped in the household chores.
After talking to them about child marriage etc we gained knowledge and got rid of a misconception many people had about them, that they believed in child marriage, but actually the girls get married near the age of 19 and boys 21.
I extremely enjoyed this experience of talking to the living heritage of india and understanding there lifestyle. There was a small girl around the age of 10 and she became my friend, she game me one of her bracelets as a gift which she was wearing and I was very touched.