Acknowledgments vii List of Contributors viii Part I: Frames of Discourse 1 1 Between Materiality and Representation: Framing an Architectural Critique of Colonial South Asia 3 Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash 2 Stones and Texts: The Architectural Historiography of Colonial India and its Colonial-Modern Contexts 27 Peter Scriver 3 The Stone Books of Orientalism 51 Stephen Cairns Part II: Institutional Frameworks 67 4 Empire-Building and Thinking in the Public Works Department of British India 69 Peter Scriver 5 Strangers within the Gate: Public Works and Industrial Art Reform 93 Arindam Dutta 6 Between Copying and Creation: The Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details 115 Vikramaditya Prakash 7 Institutional Audiences and Architectural Style: The Napier Museum 127 Paul Walker Part III: Domestic Frames of Practice 149 8 A Tomb of One's Own: The Governor's House, Lahore 151 Sylvia Shorto 9 The Other Face of Primitive Accumulation: The Garden House in British Colonial Bengal 169 Swati Chattopadhyay 10 The Trouser under the Cloth: Personal Space in Colonial-Modern Ceylon 199 Anoma Pieris 11 Negotiated Modernities: Symbolic Terrains of Housing in Delhi 219 Jyoti Hosagrahar Notes 241 Illlustration Credits 279 Index 283