Scriver,Peter creator Prakash, Vikramaditya text London Routledge 2007 monographic 287p. 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' Notes Acknowledgments p.vi, List of Contributors p.vii, Part I: Frames of Discourse p.1 Between Materiality and Representation: Framing an Architectural Critique of Colonial South Asia Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash p.3, Stones and Texts: The Architectural Historiography of Colonial India and its Colonial-Modern Contexts Peter Scriver p.27, The Stone Books of Orientalism Stephen Cairns p.51 Part Il: Institutional Frameworks p.67, Empire-Building and Thinking in the Public Works Department of British India Peter Scriver p.69, "Strangers within the Gate": Public Works and Industrial Art Reform Arindam Dutta/ p.93,Between Copying and Creation: The Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details Vikramaditya Prakash p.115, Institutional Audiences and Architectural Style: The Napier Museum Paul Walkerp.127. Part III: Domestic Frames of Practicep.149, A Tomb of One's Own: The Governor's House, Lahore Sylvia Shorto p.151, The Other Face of Primitive Accumulation: The Garden House in British Colonial Bengal Swati Chattopadhyay p.169, The Trouser under the Cloth: Personal Space in Colonial-Modern Ceylon Anoma Pieris p.199, Negotiated Modernities: Symbolic Terrains of Housing in Delhi Jyoti Hosagrahar p.219, Notes p.241, Illustration Credits p.279, Index p.283. 7542, Burhani Book Centre 720.1/SCR 9781041167365