Title & Author:

Colonial modernities : building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon / edited by Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

ix, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

The architext series

Restrictions:

Electronic version is restricted to subscribing institutions.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-278) and index.
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.

Summary:

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'.

Resources:
Table of contents
MyiLibrary

ISBN:

0415399084 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415399081 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415399092 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415399098 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0203964268 (ebk.)
9780203964262 (ebk.)

Subject:

Architecture, British colonial India.
Architecture and society India.
Architecture, British colonial Sri Lanka.
Architecture and society Sri Lanka.
Architecture coloniale britannique Inde.
Architecture et société Inde.
Architecture coloniale britannique Sri Lanka.
Architecture et société Sri Lanka.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, British colonial.
Koloniale periode.
India.
Sri Lanka.

Added entries:

Scriver, Peter.
Prakash, Vikramaditya.
Architext series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257490
Call No.: BIB 187987
Status: Available