Monumental Matters

Author : Santhi Kavuri-Bauer
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0822349221

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Monumental Matters by Santhi Kavuri-Bauer Pdf

Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent. In Monumental Matters, Santhi Kavuri-Bauer focuses on the prominent role of Mughal architecture in the construction and contestation of the Indian national landscape. She examines the representation and eventual preservation of the monuments, from their disrepair in the colonial past to their present status as protected heritage sites. Drawing on theories of power, subjectivity, and space, Kavuri-Bauer’s interdisciplinary analysis encompasses Urdu poetry, British landscape painting, imperial archaeological surveys, Indian Muslim identity, and British tourism, as well as postcolonial nation building, World Heritage designations, and conservation mandates. Since Independence, the state has attempted to construct a narrative of Mughal monuments as symbols of a unified, secular nation. Yet modern-day sectarian violence at these sites continues to suggest that India’s Mughal monuments remain the transformative spaces—of social ordering, identity formation, and national reinvention—that they have been for centuries.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.)
ISBN : LOC:00008829408

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Death Valley National Monument (Furnace Creek Area--water Rights and Related Matters) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations Pdf

Examines National Park Service administration of land and water resources in Death Valley National Monument, focusing on Park Service plans to legalize Death Valley Hotel Co. control over large portions of the Monument's water supply.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045345068

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Death Valley National Monument (Furnance Creek Area - Water Rights and Related Matters). by United States. Congress. House. Government Operations Pdf

Author : Nicholas V. Longo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791471985

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Why Community Matters by Nicholas V. Longo Pdf

Providing a new perspective on the undeniable relationship between education reform and democratic revitalization, Nicholas V. Longo uncovers and examines practical models in which communities play an essential role in teaching the art of democracy.

Author : Santhi Kavuri-Bauer
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0822348993

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Monumental Matters by Santhi Kavuri-Bauer Pdf

Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent. In Monumental Matters, Santhi Kavuri-Bauer focuses on the prominent role of Mughal architecture in the construction and contestation of the Indian national landscape. She examines the representation and eventual preservation of the monuments, from their disrepair in the colonial past to their present status as protected heritage sites. Drawing on theories of power, subjectivity, and space, Kavuri-Bauer’s interdisciplinary analysis encompasses Urdu poetry, British landscape painting, imperial archaeological surveys, Indian Muslim identity, and British tourism, as well as postcolonial nation building, World Heritage designations, and conservation mandates. Since Independence, the state has attempted to construct a narrative of Mughal monuments as symbols of a unified, secular nation. Yet modern-day sectarian violence at these sites continues to suggest that India’s Mughal monuments remain the transformative spaces—of social ordering, identity formation, and national reinvention—that they have been for centuries.

Author : Melia Belli Bose
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004300569

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Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art by Melia Belli Bose Pdf

In Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art, Melia Belli Bose provides a detailed analysis of Rajput cenotaphs known as chatrīs (Lit: "umbrellas").

Author : Irene Berti,Katharina Bolle,Fanny Opdenhoff,Fabian Stroth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110533361

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Writing Matters by Irene Berti,Katharina Bolle,Fanny Opdenhoff,Fabian Stroth Pdf

This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different cultural contexts. Innovative research questions about "material text cultures" are examined with reference to Classical Athens, late ancient and Byzantine churches and urban spaces, Hellenistic and Roman cities, and medieval buildings.

Author : Andrea Connor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317353690

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The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction by Andrea Connor Pdf

What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is its "life" as a socially significant, presencing thing at an end? Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic force, mediating work and presencing power? In this book Andrea Connor traces the ‘afterlife’ of two exemplary examples of monumental destruction and their re-investment with cultural value and symbolic significance. In 1993, during the Bosnian war, the Mostar Bridge was completely destroyed. Reconstructed in 2004, as an exact copy of the original, this "new Old Bridge" has assumed an afterlife as an intentional monument to reconciliation. The World Trade Centre, in New York, has also been transformed since its destruction in 2001, as a place of national mourning and remembrance, a symbolic void marking a singular act of terrorism. Using recent work on affect and object agency Connor considers their contested reconfiguration as sites of collective remembering and forgetting in new highly charged political contexts. She argues for a more expansive notion of reconstruction – encompassing not only the material and symbolic afterlife of both things but also their affecting afterlives as they are re-assembled in the present. Provoking a reconsideration of the way monuments and heritage sites, even in their absence, become powerful agents of historical narrativization, this work will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields including international relations, cultural studies, critical heritage studies, and material culture studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006772589

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The Builder by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yael Navaro,Zerrin Özlem Biner,Alice von Bieberstein,Seda Altuğ
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812253498

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Reverberations by Yael Navaro,Zerrin Özlem Biner,Alice von Bieberstein,Seda Altuğ Pdf

Reverberations aims to generate new concepts and methodologies for the study of political violence and its aftermath. Essays attend to the distribution, extension, and endurance of violence across time, space, materialities, and otherworldly dimensions, as well as its embodiment in subjectivities, discourses, and political imaginations.

Author : Jacob Copeman,Dwaipayan Banerjee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781501745102

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Hematologies by Jacob Copeman,Dwaipayan Banerjee Pdf

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a "bloodscape of difference": different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow.

Author : Zerrin Özlem Biner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812296594

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States of Dispossession by Zerrin Özlem Biner Pdf

The military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces has endured over the course of the past three decades. Since 1984, the conflict has claimed the lives of more than 45,000 civilians, militants, and soldiers, as well as causing thousands of casualties and disappearances. It has led to the displacement of millions of people and caused the forced evacuation of nearly 4,000 villages and towns. Suspended periodically by various cease-fires, the conflict has been a significant force in shaping many of the ethnic, social, and political enclaves of contemporary Turkey, where contradictory forms of governance have been installed across the Kurdish region. In States of Dispossession, Zerrin Özlem Biner traces the violence of the protracted conflict in the Kurdish region through the lens of dispossession. By definition, dispossession implies the act of depriving someone of land, property, and other belongings as well as the result of such deprivation. Within the fields of Ottoman and contemporary Turkish studies, social scientists to date have examined the dispossession of rights and property as a technique for governing territory and those citizens living at its margins. States of Dispossession instead highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession. Biner examines the practices and discourses that emerge from local memories of unspoken, irresolvable histories and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds live with the remains of violence that is still unfolding. She explores the implicit knowledge held by ordinary people about the landscape and the built environment and the continuous struggle to reclaim rights over dispossessed bodies and places.

Author : Samuel Fitch Hotchkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Bucks County (Pa.)
ISBN : YALE:39002064718464

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The York Road, Old and New by Samuel Fitch Hotchkin Pdf

Author : Robert Philips Greg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UCAL:$C125650

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Comparative Philology of the Old and New Worlds in Relation to Archaic Speech by Robert Philips Greg Pdf

Author : William W. Wheildon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375081874

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Memoir of Salomon Willard, Architect and Superintendent of the Bunker Hill Monument by William W. Wheildon Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.