Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon

ISBN-13: 9780415399098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 294 str.

Peter Scriver; Vikramaditya Prakash

Opis

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'.

Illustrated with seventy-five halftone images, it is a fascinating and thoroughly grounded exposition of the societal impact of colonial architecture and engineering. "

Spis treści

Part 1: Frames of Discourse  1. Between Materiality and Representation: Framing an Architectural Critique of Colonial South Asia  2. Stones and Texts: The Architectural Historiography of Colonial India and its Colonial-Modern Contexts  3. The Stone Books of Orientalism  Part 2: Institutional Frameworks  4. Empire-Building and Thinking in the Public Works Department of British India  5. 'Strangers within the Gate': Artisanry as Supplement of Labour in the Crafting of Colonial India  6. Between Copying and Creation: The Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details  7. Institutional Audiences and Architectural Style: The Napier Museum  Part 3: Domestic Frames of Practice  8. A Tomb of One’s Own: The Governor’s House, Lahore  9. The Other Face of Primitive Accumulation: The Garden House in British Colonial Bengal  10. The Trouser Under the Cloth: Personal Space in De-Colonization, Ceylon 1815-1948  11. Negotiated Modernities: Symbolic Terrains of Housing in Delhi