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British houses in late Mughal Delhi / Sylvia Shorto.
Fine Arts Library NA7429.D45 S56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shorto, Sylvia, author.
- Series:
- Worlds of the East India Company ; v. 15.
- Worlds of the East India Company, 1752-5667 ; Volume 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East India Company--Employees--Dwellings--India--Delhi.
- East India Company.
- Architecture, Domestic--India--Delhi--History--19th century.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture, British--India--Delhi--History--19th century.
- Architecture, British.
- Architecture, Domestic--India--Delhi.
- British--India--Delhi--History--19th century.
- British.
- Buildings--India--Delhi.
- Buildings.
- History.
- Employees.
- Dwellings.
- India--Delhi.
- India.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This book investigates the houses of a group of East India Company officials in Delhi - and the possessions they owned, used and displayed in these houses- in the fifty years following the beginning of British occupation in 1803. Arguing that houses, their location and their contents reveal the underlying values and beliefs of the individuals who lived in them, it examines the changing ways in which the British both related to and resisted the pre-existing spatial layout of the city, how the British re-used palaces and other monumental structures, how new building outwardly appeared to be formally classical.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Knowledge of Delhi: The Eighteenth Century p. 1
- Chapter 2 Hybrid Accommodations: David Ochterlony, the First Residency and the Mubarak Bagh p. 25
- Chapter 3 A Lovely Wilderness: Charles Metcalfe and the Garden Houses at Shalimar p. 55
- Chapter 4 Truly Fairy Palaces: Robert Smith in Delhi and in Europe p. 81
- Chapter 5 The World Displayed: William Fraser and his House on the Hill p. 111
- Chapter 6 A Tomb with View: Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe's Dilkusha p. 139
- Chapter 7 Dreaming of Home p. 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783272082
- 1783272082
- OCLC:
- 967844768
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