Building Histories
Subtitle: The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Mar 01, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226283470
Description: Building Histories" offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi the Red Fort, Rasul Numa dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and Qutb complex tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.?Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective "archival" truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside of the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.
Notes: Source title: Building Histories: The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi (South Asia Across the Disciplines)