Colonial frames, nationalist histories : imperial legacies, architecture and modernity
Publication details: England Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2012Description: xviii,317pISBN:- 9780754678809
- 720.103 RAJ
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Foreword xvii
Introduction: Architectural Modernities of Imperial Pasts and
Nationalist Presents 1
Mrinalini Rajagopalan and Madhuri Desai
SECTION 1 COLONIAL TAXONOMIES AND THE NATION'S EPISTEME
1.Making Indian Modern Architects 27
William Glover
2. In Search of the Sacred and Antique in Colonial India 47
Madhuri Desai
3. From Colonial Memorial to National Monument: The Case of the
Kashmiri Gate, Delhi 73
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
SECTION 2 IMPERIAL DESIGNS AND THE NATION'S FRAGMENTS
4. Comparative Alterities: Native Encounters and the National Museum 105
C. Qreig Crysler
5. The Black Atlantic and Georgian London 137
Richard W. Hayes
6. Almost, But Not Quite: Architecture and the Reconstruction of Space in the Territory of Hawaii Kelema Lee Moses
SECTION 3
GLOBAL VOCABULARIES AND LOCAL PRODUCTS
7. Redefining the Dual City: Changing Ideas of Plural Citizenship in
Colonial/ Postcolonial Singapore 185
Anoma Pieris
8. Beyond Racialized Representation: Architectural Linguae Francae and Urban Histories in the Kampung Houses and Shophouses of Melaka and Singapore 213
Imran bin Tajudeen
9. Between Typologies and Representation: The Jong Lau and the
Discourse of the "Chinese House" in Colonial Hong Kong 253
Cecilia Chu
10. Postcolonial Shanghai: An Urban Discourse of Prosperity and Futurity 285
Andrew Law
Index 305
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