TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prakash, Vikramaditya
AU  - Scriver, Peter
TI  - Colonial modernities: building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon
SN  - 9780415399081 (hbk : alk. paper)
U1  - 720.9410954 	 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architecture, British colonial
KW  - India
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Sri Lanka
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 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
ER  -