building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon Scriver, Peter. Prakash, Vikramaditya. text bibliography enk London New York Routledge 2007 monographic eng

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ix, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. 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'. 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. edited by Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash. Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-278) and index. a-ii--- a-ce--- Architecture, British colonial India Architecture and society India Architecture, British colonial Sri Lanka Architecture and society Sri Lanka NA1501 .C55 2007 720.941 21.62 London ; New York : Routledge, 2007 (OCoLC)619749801 0415399084 (hbk : alk. paper) 9780415399081 (hbk : alk. paper) 0415399092 (pbk : alk. paper) 9780415399098 (pbk : alk. paper) 0203964268 (ebk.) 9780203964262 (ebk.) 2006028117 http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006028117.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006028117.html DLC 060823 20180116192421.0 14514451 eng