Colonial modernities :
Colonial modernities : building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon /
edited by Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- ix, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
- The architext series .
- The architext series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-278) and index.
Between materiality and representation : framing an architecural critique of colonial South Asia / Stones and texts : the architectural historiography of colonial India and its colonial-modern contexts / The stone books of orientalism / Empire-building and thinking in the Public Works Department of British India / "Strangers within the gate" : public works and industrial art reform / Between copying and creation : the Jeypore portfolio of architectural details / Institutional audiences and architectural style : the Napier Museum / A tomb of one's own : the governor's house, Lahore / The other face of primitive accumulation : the garden house in British colonial Bengal / The trouser under the cloth : personal space in colonial-modern Ceylon / Negotiated modernities : symbolic terrains of housing in Delhi / Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash -- Peter Scriver -- Stephen Cairns -- Peter Scriver -- Arindam Dutta -- Vrkamaditya Prakash -- Paul Walker -- Sylvia Shorto -- Swati Chattopadhyay -- Anoma Pieris -- Jyoti Hosagrahar.
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'.
0415399084 (hbk : alk. paper) 9780415399081 (hbk : alk. paper) 0415399092 (pbk : alk. paper) 9780415399098 (pbk : alk. paper) 0203964268 (ebk.) 9780203964262 (ebk.)
2006028117
GBA683593 bnb
013567368 Uk
Architecture, British colonial--India.
Architecture and society--India.
Architecture, British colonial--Sri Lanka.
Architecture and society--Sri Lanka.
NA1501 / .C55 2007
720.941/0954
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-278) and index.
Between materiality and representation : framing an architecural critique of colonial South Asia / Stones and texts : the architectural historiography of colonial India and its colonial-modern contexts / The stone books of orientalism / Empire-building and thinking in the Public Works Department of British India / "Strangers within the gate" : public works and industrial art reform / Between copying and creation : the Jeypore portfolio of architectural details / Institutional audiences and architectural style : the Napier Museum / A tomb of one's own : the governor's house, Lahore / The other face of primitive accumulation : the garden house in British colonial Bengal / The trouser under the cloth : personal space in colonial-modern Ceylon / Negotiated modernities : symbolic terrains of housing in Delhi / Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash -- Peter Scriver -- Stephen Cairns -- Peter Scriver -- Arindam Dutta -- Vrkamaditya Prakash -- Paul Walker -- Sylvia Shorto -- Swati Chattopadhyay -- Anoma Pieris -- Jyoti Hosagrahar.
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'.
0415399084 (hbk : alk. paper) 9780415399081 (hbk : alk. paper) 0415399092 (pbk : alk. paper) 9780415399098 (pbk : alk. paper) 0203964268 (ebk.) 9780203964262 (ebk.)
2006028117
GBA683593 bnb
013567368 Uk
Architecture, British colonial--India.
Architecture and society--India.
Architecture, British colonial--Sri Lanka.
Architecture and society--Sri Lanka.
NA1501 / .C55 2007
720.941/0954