Format:
1 online resource (229 pages)
ISBN:
9780822393764
Content:
Monumental Matters analyzes the role of Mughal architecture--magnificent tombs, mosques, forts, and palaces, such as the Taj Mahal--in Indias cultural politics from the colonial era to the present.
Content:
Intro -- contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Breathing New Life into Old Stones: The Poets and Artists of the Mughal Monument in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. From Cunningham to Curzon: Producing the Mughal Monument in the Era of High Imperialism -- 3. Between Fantasy and Phantasmagoria: The Mughal Monument and the Structure of Touristic Desire -- 4. Rebuilding Indian Muslim Space from the Ruins of the Mughal "Moral City" -- 5. Tryst with Destiny: Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal Monuments -- 6. The Ethics of Monumentality in Postindependence India -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822348993
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780822348993
Language:
English
