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Colonial modernities : building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon
- Title
- Colonial modernities : building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon / edited by Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
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- Description
- ix, 287 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.
- 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'.
- Series Statement
- The architext series
- Uniform Title
- Architext series
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-278) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0415399084
- 9780415399081
- 0415399092
- 9780415399098
- 0203964268
- 9780203964262
- LCCN
- 2006028117
- OCLC
- ocm71173820
- 71173820
- SCSB-1442673
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library