Colonial modernities building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon

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TextPublication details: London Routledge 2007Description: ix, 287 p. ill., maps 26 cmISBN:

9780415399098

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Colonial modernities.DDC classification:

720.9410954 23 CO-

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NA1501 .C55 2007

Contents:

Between materiality and representation : framing an architecural critique of colonial South Asia / Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash -- Stones and texts : the architectural historiography of colonial India and its colonial-modern contexts / Peter Scriver -- The stone books of orientalism / Stephen Cairns -- Empire-building and thinking in the Public Works Department of British India / Peter Scriver -- "Strangers within the gate" : public works and industrial art reform / Arindam Dutta -- Between copying and creation : the Jeypore portfolio of architectural details / Vrkamaditya Prakash -- Institutional audiences and architectural style : the Napier Museum / Paul Walker -- A tomb of one's own : the governor's house, Lahore / Sylvia Shorto -- The other face of primitive accumulation : the garden house in British colonial Bengal / Swati Chattopadhyay -- The trouser under the cloth : personal space in colonial-modern Ceylon / Anoma Pieris -- Negotiated modernities : symbolic terrains of housing in Delhi / Jyoti Hosagrahar.

Summary: A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved - both the colonizer and the colonized. Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions. Providing a thorough exploration of these tensions, Colonial Modernities challenges the traditional literature on the architecture and infrastructure of the former European empires, not least that of the British Indian 'Raj'.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-278) and index.

A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved - both the colonizer and the colonized. Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions. Providing a thorough exploration of these tensions, Colonial Modernities challenges the traditional literature on the architecture and infrastructure of the former European empires, not least that of the British Indian 'Raj'.

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