Monumental matters : the power, subjectivity, and space of India's Mughal architecture / Santhi Kavuri-Bauer.
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TextPublication details: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011. Description: x, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780822348993 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780822349228 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Architecture, Mogul Empire -- India -- History | Monuments -- India -- History | Islamic architecture -- India -- History | India -- History -- 1526-1765LOC classification: NA1502 | .K388 2011
Contents:
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.
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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.
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