In this paper I examine the ‘heritage regime’ instituted at Hampi, Karnataka, India, consequent to its inscription as World Heritage, by analysing everyday material practices of conservation-management at the site through the lens of ‘care’. I argue that the regime is undoubtedly a bureaucracy as popularly imagined – but of care premised on knowledge and not of apathy. I suggest that various ongoing contestations amongst social actors are over the appropriateness of care, based on a particular visual aesthetic, which results in spatio-temporal material alienation of resident communities. Confusing consequence for cause, practice seeks to ‘engage’ with people whose alienation from ‘official’ heritage they are party to inevitably leads to everyday ‘heartbreak’ for experts, disillusionment among residents, and a conflicted position for local heritage agencies, albeit unintentionally.

在本文中，我通过“护理”的角度分析了该地区日常的自然保护管理实践，研究了因其被列为世界遗产而在印度卡纳塔克邦亨比建立的“遗产制度”。我认为，该政权无疑是一个普遍想象的官僚机构，但其照顾的前提是知识而不是冷漠。我建议，社会行为者之间正在进行的各种争论都是基于一种特殊的视觉美学来进行的关于护理是否适当的争论，这导致了居住社区的时空物质异化。实践混淆了因果关系，实践试图与那些与他们加入“官方”遗产的人疏远，从而不可避免地导致专家们每天的“伤心”，居民的幻灭，