TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scriver,Peter
AU  - Prakash,Vikramaditya
TI  - Colonial modernities : building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon 
SN  - 9780415399098 
AV  - NA1501 .C55 2007
U1  - 720.9410954 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London 
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architecture, British colonial
KW  - India
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Sri Lanka
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-278) and index; 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
N2  - 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'
ER  -