Colonial modernities: building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon/
Colonial modernities: building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon/
edited by Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- ix, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-278) and index.
Between materiality and representation : framing an architecural critique of colonial South Asia / Stones and texts : the architectural historiography of colonial India and its colonial-modern contexts / The stone books of orientalism / Empire-building and thinking in the Public Works Department of British India / "Strangers within the gate" : public works and industrial art reform / Between copying and creation : the Jeypore portfolio of architectural details / Institutional audiences and architectural style : the Napier Museum / A tomb of one's own : the governor's house, Lahore / The other face of primitive accumulation : the garden house in British colonial Bengal / The trouser under the cloth : personal space in colonial-modern Ceylon / Negotiated modernities : symbolic terrains of housing in Delhi / Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash -- Peter Scriver -- Stephen Cairns -- Peter Scriver -- Arindam Dutta -- Vrkamaditya Prakash -- Paul Walker -- Sylvia Shorto -- Swati Chattopadhyay -- Anoma Pieris -- Jyoti Hosagrahar.
9780415399081 (hbk : alk. paper) 0415399092 (pbk : alk. paper)
Architecture, British colonial--India.
Architecture and society--India.
Architecture, British colonial--Sri Lanka.
Architecture and society--Sri Lanka.
720.9410954 / SCR/C
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-278) and index.
Between materiality and representation : framing an architecural critique of colonial South Asia / Stones and texts : the architectural historiography of colonial India and its colonial-modern contexts / The stone books of orientalism / Empire-building and thinking in the Public Works Department of British India / "Strangers within the gate" : public works and industrial art reform / Between copying and creation : the Jeypore portfolio of architectural details / Institutional audiences and architectural style : the Napier Museum / A tomb of one's own : the governor's house, Lahore / The other face of primitive accumulation : the garden house in British colonial Bengal / The trouser under the cloth : personal space in colonial-modern Ceylon / Negotiated modernities : symbolic terrains of housing in Delhi / Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash -- Peter Scriver -- Stephen Cairns -- Peter Scriver -- Arindam Dutta -- Vrkamaditya Prakash -- Paul Walker -- Sylvia Shorto -- Swati Chattopadhyay -- Anoma Pieris -- Jyoti Hosagrahar.
9780415399081 (hbk : alk. paper) 0415399092 (pbk : alk. paper)
Architecture, British colonial--India.
Architecture and society--India.
Architecture, British colonial--Sri Lanka.
Architecture and society--Sri Lanka.
720.9410954 / SCR/C