A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive : Lucknow Queerscapes.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mithal, Sonal, author.

Contributor:

• Paul, Arul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Asafuddaula, Nawab Wazir of Oudh, 1748-1797--Art patronage.
• Wajid ʻAli Shah, King of Oudh, 1822-1887--Art patronage.
• Homosexuality and architecture--India--Lucknow.
• Queer architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs Asaf-ud-daula and Wajid Ali Shah, and reveals the colonial bias against queer expression. It is intended for scholars and students of queer studies, postcolonial studies, architectural history and the global south.

Contents:

• Gender, sex, and state in nawabi Lucknow
• Locating forms of resistance and transgression
• Queering the colonial archive
• Locating inaccuracies, fallacies, biases in the colonial archive
• Counter-archives
• Contesting colonial claims
• The architecture of Asaf-ud-Daula
• Architecture of Wajid Ali Shah
• Of vaudeville variety
• Of perverse compositions
• Of in-tensions and obscurations.

Notes:

• CC BY-NC-ND
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 1-04-011435-0
• 1-003-37063-2
• 1-04-011432-6

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003370635