Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city--once a prosperous Mughal center that had long since fallen into ruin--was transformed. British and Indian officials had designed a modern, architecturally distinct city center adjacent to the old walled city, administered under new methods of urban governance.
In Making Lahore Modern, William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore. In particular, he focuses on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization came to...
Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city--once a prosperous Mughal center that had long si...
