Sengupta, T;
(2019)
Inside Colonial India's Cutcherry.
The RIBA Journal
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Abstract
In describing colonial or imperial built landscapes, architectural history has traditionally tended to focus on major urban schemes and grand, monumental buildings such as governmental palaces, public institutions or transport infrastructures like bridges and railway terminals. This is true of traditional ‘received histories’ of colonial architecture which describe the heroic achievements of the rulers,1 and largely also of postcolonial studies up until the late 1990s which looked critically at the political, economic and socio-cultural implications of colonialism and imperialism, but ironically, was still preoccupied with grandiose city designs and iconic buildings, this time as expressions of oppressive colonial power.2 In addition, one sees a disproportionate emphasis on the architectural artefact and the formal language of colonialism. Their on-ground, day-to-day material or spatial patterns and practices, and how they were experienced or inhabited by colonial subjects have remained largely obscure.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Inside Colonial India's Cutcherry |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://www.ribaj.com/intelligence/president-s-awa... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10091171 |
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