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| 020 | _a9781041167365 | ||
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_aScriver,Peter _95132 |
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| 245 | _aColonial modernities : building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon | ||
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_aLondon _bRoutledge _c2007 |
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| 300 | _a287p. | ||
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_a7542, Burhani Book Centre _b2025-08-29 |
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| 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 | ||
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