Kalia, Ravi.

Gandhinagar : building national identity in postcolonial India / Ravi Kalia.

Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, ©2004.

xiv, 165 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Exploring the impact of modernist architecture on India as a whole, Kalia suggests that the style gained acceptance because its parsimonious designs and unadorned spaces never represented a threat to a religiously pluralist country anxious to create a secular identity. He explains how two competing versions of Indian history and ideology - Gandhi's and Jawaharlal Nehru's - employed modernism's ideals for their own separate ends. Serving two masters, as Kalia illustrates, created constrictions and tensions evident in the building of Gandhinagar and in the careers of many Indian architects, including Doshi, Charles Correa, and Achyut Kanvinde."--Jacket.

157003544X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781570035449 (cloth ; alk. paper)

City planning India Gāndhīnagar.
Urban policy India.
Politique urbaine Inde.
15.75 history of Asia.
City planning.
Social conditions
Urban policy.
Stedenbouw.
Nationale identiteit.
Architecture India Gāndhīnagar.
Gāndhīnagar (India) Social conditions.
India.
India Gāndhīnagar.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 233564
Cote: HT169.I42 G3 2004
Statut: Disponible