Limitations of the Study

The present study is limited in many respects. The primary limitation of the study is time and space. The prime reason of the limitation is the vastness of the subject and number of avenues or perspective of looking at the subject. The comparative enormity of the topic and constraints of limit is obvious in present study. Moreover, the study may lack deserved focus and profundity out of similar constraints. It is so because, the different ethnic communities of the region demands and deserves a separate comprehensive study. Therefore, the present study may look wanting of breadth and detail that one may anticipate.

Secondly, the topic of vernacular architecture is multidisciplinary in nature and so demands a multidisciplinary approach in the study of the subject, which lacks in the study. Again, Dell Upton (1983) identified four avenues of inquiry of the vernacular architecture such as Object-Oriented Study, Socially Oriented Study, Culturally Oriented Study, and Symbolically Oriented Study. But there had limited scope to look the subject in fullest, from all of those avenues for a number of reasons. Hence, in the present study, the subject was mostly examined from the avenues of the Object Oriented and Culturally Oriented Study with an emphasis on forms and cultural context. The other perspectives were also drawn at places, but without the due comprehensiveness. However, there was the necessity to look and examine the subject from the other avenues also. Such incomprehensiveness is a limitation of the study.