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020 _a9781041167365
082 _a720.1/SCR
100 _aScriver,Peter
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245 _aColonial modernities : building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon
260 _aLondon
_bRoutledge
_c2007
300 _a287p.
500 _a7542, Burhani Book Centre
_b2025-08-29
505 _aAcknowledgments 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.
520 _aA 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
700 _aPrakash, Vikramaditya
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942 _cBK
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