Monumental matters : the power, subjectivity, and space of India's Mughal architecture /
Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-
Monumental matters : the power, subjectivity, and space of India's Mughal architecture / Santhi Kavuri-Bauer. - Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011. - x, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.
9780822348993 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822349228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Architecture, Mogul Empire--History.--India
Monuments--History.--India
Islamic architecture--History.--India
India--History--1526-1765.
NA1502 / .K388 2011
Monumental matters : the power, subjectivity, and space of India's Mughal architecture / Santhi Kavuri-Bauer. - Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011. - x, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.
9780822348993 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822349228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Architecture, Mogul Empire--History.--India
Monuments--History.--India
Islamic architecture--History.--India
India--History--1526-1765.
NA1502 / .K388 2011