Henry Irwin And The Indo Saracenic Movement Reconsidered

Author : Pradip Kumar Das
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781482822694

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Henry Irwin and the Indo Saracenic Movement Reconsidered by Pradip Kumar Das Pdf

The book focuses on Henry Irwin, a man who began his life in India as a PWD engineer and subsequently rose to the position of consulting architect to the government of Madras succeeding Robert Fellowes Chisholm, his predecessor in that office. Many of Irwin's creations continue to dominate the Madras skyline and are held in high esteem by local denizens. However, the blatant hybridity of some of these monuments, coupled with the fact that they failed to reflect the attempt to legitimize colonial rule, also accounted for their transience as an architectural movement. Parallels drawn with the colonial architecture of Calcutta and Bombay, not to speak of the impact of Indo-Saracenic architecture on some of India's princely states, draw attention to the movement. Likewise, its authenticity has been questioned against the backdrop of the architectural legacy of the home country during the same period.

Author : Farhan Karim
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822986546

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Of Greater Dignity than Riches by Farhan Karim Pdf

Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became a central inspiration for architectural modernism in the subcontinent. As India moved from colonial rule to independence, the Indian government, business entities, international NGOs, and intergovernmental agencies took major initiatives to modernize housing conditions and the domestic environment of the state’s low-income population. Of Greater Dignity than Riches traces multiple international origins of austerity as an essential ingredient of postcolonial development. By prescribing model villages, communities, and ideal houses for the working class, this project of austerity eventually reduced poverty into a stylized architectural representation. In this rich and original study, Karim explains the postwar and postcolonial history of low-cost housing as an intertwined process of global transferences of knowledge, Cold War cultural politics, postcolonial nationalism, and the politics of economic development.

Author : Pushkar Sohoni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000789379

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Taming the Oriental Bazaar by Pushkar Sohoni Pdf

Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia. Representing a transition in the architectural programme, these buildings were meant to be monuments and markers of modernity in South Asia. The book: Explores how market-halls became an essential feature of colonial settlements from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries Discusses public health policies and legislations central to the concerns of market-hall sanitation Reviews the elements of modernity, including institutions and systems established in the nineteenth century as India went from Company to Crown Studies the specific circumstances and histories of market halls in the towns and cities of Bengaluru, Vadodara, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Karachi, Lahore, Chennai, Pune, and others A key text in the study of colonial architecture, this book will be of interest to students, researchers as well as general readers of architecture, colonialism, history of architecture, history of medicine, public health, urbanism, and South Asian studies.

Author : Indian Navy
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789352069170

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Maritime Heritage of India by Indian Navy Pdf

This photo-essay book is a modest attempt to link our maritime past, along with the entire progress, to the present, and in light of the same, to relate the future of the nation to a distinct maritime orientation with the Indian Navy as the lead national maritime agency. It traces about 7,500 years of India's maritime history and heritage. There are eight chapters, each dwelling on different aspects of maritime heritage namely, trade and commerce, evolution of cultures, influence of architecture, forts and lighthouses, naval battles and the evolution of the Indian navy. With images and artwork, this book will give the reader a vivid insight into our country's rich maritime past.

Author : Narayani Gupta
Publisher : Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000157188370

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A Work of Beauty by Narayani Gupta Pdf

This exhaustive volume documents the entire landscape around and architecture of the Rastrapati Bhavan estate, starting from its construction as Government House, after the capital of British India shifted from calcutta to Delhi in 1911.

Author : Peter Scriver,Vikramaditya Prakash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134150250

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Colonial Modernities by Peter Scriver,Vikramaditya Prakash Pdf

A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both the colonizer and the colonized. Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions. Providing a thorough exploration of these tensions, Colonial Modernities challenges the traditional literature on the architecture and infrastructure of the former European empires, not least that of the British Indian 'Raj'. Illustrated with seventy-five halftone images, it is a fascinating and thoroughly grounded exposition of the societal impact of colonial architecture and engineering.

Author : Thomas R. Metcalf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015056505707

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An Imperial Vision by Thomas R. Metcalf Pdf

This book looks at the relationship between culture and power expressed in architectural forms employed by the British in India. These buildings reflect the choices made by the British in their politics as imperial rulers.

Author : Gordon Cullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136020902

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Concise Townscape by Gordon Cullen Pdf

This book pioneered the concept of townscape. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment. It has been a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781408102572

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Anagram Solver by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

Author : Gordon Cullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015006307709

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Townscape by Gordon Cullen Pdf

Author : Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Calcutta (India)
ISBN : 0415343593

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Representing Calcutta by Swati Chattopadhyay Pdf

Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.

Author : Barbara D. Metcalf,Thomas R. Metcalf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139458870

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A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf,Thomas R. Metcalf Pdf

In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals, through the British Empire, and into Independence, the country has been transformed by its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have helped bring about the social, cultural and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century and paved the way for the modern success story. Despite these advances, poverty, social inequality and religious division still fester. In response to these dilemmas, the book grapples with questions of caste and religious identity, and the nature of the Indian nation.

Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789357082426

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The Idea of Ancient India by Upinder Singh Pdf

How can the complexities of ancient India be comprehended? This book draws on a vast array of texts, inscriptions, archaeology, archival sources and art to delve into themes such as the history of regions and religions, archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites, the interface between political ideas and practice, violence and resistance, and the interactions between the Indian subcontinent and the wider world. It highlights recent approaches and challenges in reconstructing South Asia's early history, and in doing so, brings out the exciting complexities of ancient India. Authoritative and incisive, this revised Penguin edition-with two new chapters-is essential reading for students and scholars of ancient Indian history and for all those interested in India's past.

Author : Katherine Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351537766

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Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture by Katherine Wheeler Pdf

In the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical architecture of Greece and Rome. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi as the ?Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.? Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture, 1850-1914 examines these conflicting characterizations and reveals how the writing of architectural history was intimately tied to the rise of the professional architect and the formalization of architectural education in late nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a broad range of evidence, including literary texts, professional journals, university curricula, and census records, Victorian Perceptions reframes works by seminal authors such as John Ruskin, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Geoffrey Scott alongside those by architect-authors such as William J. Anderson and Reginald Blomfield within contemporary architectural debates. Relevant for architectural historians, as well as literary scholars and those in Victorian studies, Victorian Perceptions reassesses the history of Renaissance architecture within the formation of a modern, British architectural profession.

Author : Rajendra Prasad
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143414155

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India Divided by Rajendra Prasad Pdf

The question of the partition of India into Muslim and Hindu zones assumed importance after the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in its favour in March 1940 in Lahore.