Shaping the Modern. Architectural Cultures and Critique in Late-colonial India (1913-c.1948)
The years leading to the end of colonial rule in India (1910s-40s) present a staggering array of building practices for historians of modern architecture to investigate. This period includes the two world wars and their intervening years that bore witness to major shifts in power across the globe....
Enregistré dans:
| Dans: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/abe, |
|---|---|
| Auteur principal: | |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Publié: |
ABE Journal
2025
|
| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The years leading to the end of colonial rule in India (1910s-40s) present a staggering array of building practices for historians of modern architecture to investigate. This period includes the two world wars and their intervening years that bore witness to major shifts in power across the globe. In these decades, western civilizational and cultural paradigms of modernity that legitimized imperial expansion were progressively being cast into doubt. A disjuncture developed between the offici... |
|---|