Monumental matters
Subtitle: the power, subjectivity, and space of India's Mughal architecture
By: Santhi Kavuri-Bauer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780822348993; 9780822349228
Subjects: Mogul Architecture; History; Islamic architecture; Monuments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century; title: From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism; title: Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire; title: Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city"; title: Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments; title: The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.