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Monumental matters : the power, subjectivity, and space of India's Mughal architecture / Santhi Kavuri-Bauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Mughal Empire--India--History.
- Architecture, Mughal Empire.
- Monuments--India--History.
- Monuments.
- Islamic architecture--India--History.
- Islamic architecture.
- India--History--1526-1765.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Monumental Matters analyzes the role of Mughal architecture-magnificent tombs, mosques, forts, and palaces, such as the Taj Mahal-in India s cultural politics from the colonial era to the present.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/arr/4.0/legalcode cc
- ISBN:
- 9786613292254
- 9781283292252
- 1283292254
- 9780822393764
- 082239376X
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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