Architecture and independence : the search of identity - India 1880 to 1980
Publication details: Ahmedabad CEPT Uni. Press 2022Description: xxii,368pISBN:- 9789383184293
- 720.954 LAN
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Contents
1. Architecture and Identity: Nationalism, Regionalism and Individualism 1
2. Antecedents and Precedents-India before 1857 21
3. The Imperial Heyday-1858 to 1910 69
4. Indian Nationalism and the Arts-1880 to 1940 115
5. Towards Independence-The Architectural Profession and its Architecture: 1900 to 1950 140
6. Independence-The Views of India's Future 1940 to 1950 182
7. Nehru's India-Searching for a Suitable Architecture 1945 to 1980 192
8. The Architecture of Independence: Rethinking Modernism, Traditionalism and Revivalism-The Years from 1964 to 1980 and beyond 253
9. India in a Globalising World 310
Glossary 317
Appendix 1: A Draft Manifesto for the Proposed All-India League of Indian Architecture 320
Appendix 2: A Petition Presented to His Majesty's Principal Secretary for the State of India 322
Appendix 3: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on Chandigarh 324
Bibliography 325
Interviews Cited 343
Index 344
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