Indigenous modernities
Subtitle: negotiating architecture, urbanism, and colonialism in Delhi
By: Jyoti Hosagrahar.
Series: The Architext series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England]; New York, NY [USA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Architecture -- India -- Delhi -- 19th century; Architecture -- India -- Delhi -- 20th century; City planning -- India -- Delhi -- History -- 19th century; City planning -- India -- Delhi -- History -- 20th century; Delhi (India) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Becoming 'modern'; title: Fragmenting domestic landscapes: from mansions to margins; title: Negotiating streets and squares: spatial culture in the public realm; title: Sanitizing neighborhoods: geographies of health; title: Beyond the walls: commerce of urban expansion; title: Imagining modernity: symbolic terrains of housing; title: Recovering an urban past.