Maharajas' palaces : European style in imperial India / photographs, Anne Garde ; text, Sylvie Raulet ; foreword, Laure Vernière.

Main entry:

Raulet, Sylvie.

Title & Author:

Maharajas' palaces : European style in imperial India / photographs, Anne Garde ; text, Sylvie Raulet ; foreword, Laure Vernière.

Publication:

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 293).
Simla Chapslee -- Patiala Sheesh Mahal Palace -- Kapurthala Villa Buona Vista and Jagatjit Palace -- Rampur Hamid Manzil Palace and present day residence -- Lucknow La Martiniète -- Calcutta, Marble Palace, Mullick Palace, Yule Bank and Mitter Palace -- Delhi Rashtrapati Bhavan and Princess of Bikaner's residence -- Pataudi -- Dholpur -- Gwalior Jai Vilas -- Jaipur -- Dunlod City Palace -- Bikaner Lallgarh Palace -- Jodhpur Umaid Bhawan and Sardar Samand -- Baroda Lakshmi Vilas -- Wankaner Ranjit Vilas Palace and Oasis House -- Morvi -- Ootacamund Southwick -- Mysore Amba Vilas -- Hyderabad, Falaknuma Palace, Chauwmohalla Palace and Purani Haveli Palace.

Summary:

From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, many Indian princes, nawabs, rajas and maharajas as well as wealthy merchants abandoned their refined traditional lifestyle in order to emulate that of their colonial British occupiers. They commissioned British and European architects to design new palaces in styles ranging from Indo-Saracenic to pseudo-Versailles, brought in artists from abroad to decorate them and lived in an opulence not seen since the court of the Sun King. This book, photographed over a period of several years, shows the remnants of this bizarre mixture of European taste and Oriental vulgarity as seen in the palaces of India's now defunct rulers. Kitsch, exoticism and enchantment reign in a publication that will delight everybody interest in India, the 19th century, the Raj and exotic decoration.

ISBN:

0865659893
9780865659896

Subject:

Palaces India.
Architecture India European influences.
Palais Inde.
Architecture Inde Influence européenne.
Architecture European influences
Kings and rulers Homes and haunts
Palaces
Maharadscha
Palast
India Kings and rulers Homes and haunts.
Inde Rois et souverains Résidences et lieux familiers.
India
Indien

Added entries:

Garde, Anne, photographer.
Vernière, Laure, 1941- writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193544
Call No.: NA1501.R36 (ID:97-B4595)
Status: Available

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