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Indigenous Modernities

Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

By: Jyoti Hosagrahar

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Indigenous Modernities

Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

By: Jyoti Hosagrahar

This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism that goes beyond conventional understanding. Part one reflects on transformations and discontinuities in built form and spatial culture and questions accepted notions of the static nature of what is normally referred to as traditional and non-Western architecture. Part two is a critical discussion of Delhi in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, redefining modernism in a way that separates the city's architecture and society from the objectified realm of the exotic whilst acknowledging non-Western ideas of modernity. In the final part the author considers 'indigenous modernities': the irregular, the uneven and the unexpected in what uncritical observers might call a coherent 'traditional' society and built environment.

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1134348215

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Indigenous Modernities

Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

By: Jyoti Hosagrahar

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Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

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Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi

By: Jyoti Pandey Sharma

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Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi

By: Jyoti Pandey Sharma

No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so many lives as Delhi. This book examines Delhi in the politically and culturally dynamic nineteenth century which was marked midway by the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule as a watershed event. Following British occupation, Delhi became a receptacle for encounters between the centuries-old Mughal traditions and the incoming colonial ideal, producing a traditionalism-modernity binary. Employing the built environment lens, the book traces the architectural trajectory of Delhi as it transitioned from the seventeenth-century Mughal Badshahi Shahar (imperial city) first into a culturally hybrid Dilli-Delhi combine of the pre-uprising era and thereafter into a modern British city following the uprising. This transition is presented via four constructs that draw on the traditionalism-modernity binary of Mughal and British Delhi and include Marhoom Dilli (Dead Delhi); Picturesque Delhi; Baaghi Dilli (Insurgent Delhi) and Tamed Delhi. The book goes beyond the nineteenth century to examine the vestiges of Delhi’s four nineteenth-century lives in the present while making a case for their acknowledgement as a cultural asset that can propel the city’s urban development agenda. By bringing together the city’s past and its present as well as addressing its future, the book can count among its readers not just scholars but also those interested in cities and their evolving landscapes.

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Taylor & Francis

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100084143X

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Indigenous Modernities

Indigenous Modernities

Indigenous Modernities

Indigenous Modernities

Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi

Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi

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