Changel: Three centuries of an Indian village
In this article a history is presented of Changel, a village in North Bihar, India, from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present. In the absence of the conventional materials used by...
View ArticleArchaeobotanical evidence of millets in the Indian subcontinent with some...
An assessment of a good number of archaeological datasets available so far on small-grained millets from core (Upper Indus) and peripheral regions of the Indus/Harappan civilization is made to...
View ArticleMedia, Citizenship, and Religious Mobilization: The Muharram Awareness...
The great urban diversity of Mumbai has given rise to a range of religious mobilizations that are not only shaped by a history of communalism along religious lines but also driven by intra-religious...
View ArticlePalaeoecology and the Harappan Civilisation of South Asia: a reconsideration
Climatic change has often been cited as a determining factor in cultural changes in the context of the Harappan Civilisation of northwestern South Asia, 2500–1900 BC. While these claims have been...
View ArticleArchitectural Education in India
Mehta, Madan."Architectural Education in India."Architectural Science Review 21, no. 1-2 (1978): 35-37.
View ArticleLockwood and Meta de Forest in India, Kashmir, and Nepal
Mayer, Roberta A.."Lockwood and Meta de Forest in India, Kashmir, and Nepal."Archives of American Art Journal 52, no. 1/2 (2013): 44-57.
View ArticleIndian Domestic Architecture
IN publishing the following examples of Indian Architecture, my object is to interest all who care for art, and particularly to bring to their notice the industries of wood and stone carving as applied...
View ArticleThe Portuguese Fort of Diu
“The Towne and llande of Diu lyeth distant from the ryver Indo 70. miles under 21. degrées, close to the firme land: in times past it belonged to ye King of Cambaia, in whose land an coast it lyeth,...
View ArticleConvict Carpets: Jails and the Revival of Historic Carpet Design in Colonial...
One promising traditional industry slated for revival in late colonial India was carpet weaving. Characterized by low technology, high product value, and strong demand, carpets appealed for obvious...
View ArticleReview Essay: Beyond nationalism: modernity, governance and a new urban...
Swati Chattopadhyay, Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. xvi + 314pp. £100.00.Jyoti Hosagrahar, Indigenous Modernities:...
View ArticleMarks of Capital: Colonialism and the Sweepers of Delhi
In a sub-field of Marxism, A.G. Frank and E. Laclau debated the intricate details of Frank's critique of the “dualist thesis”. That thesis argued that capitalism failed to overcome feudalism in its...
View ArticleThe Technology of Sanitation in Colonial Delhi
The preservation of the wealth and welfare of nations, and advances in culture and civilisation depend on how the sewage question is resolved.(von Liebig, 1850s).Delhi is a very suggestive and...
View ArticleThe English Cemetery at Surat: Pre-Colonial Cultural Encounters in Western India
During the seventeenth century East India Company merchants settled in several cities of western India under the control of the Mughal Empire. The most important of these was Surat in Gujarat, where an...
View ArticleThe Aesthetics of Lockwood de Forest: India, Craft, and Preservation
Mayer, Roberta A.."The Aesthetics of Lockwood de Forest: India, Craft, and Preservation."Winterthur Portfolio 31, no. 1 (1996): 1-22.
View ArticleThe New Indian Galleries
[excerpt] A MUSEUM curator of ten has cause to lament the inelasticity of brick and mortar. His collections increase in size, but his gallery walls "stay put" Sometimes, however, a fortunate chance...
View ArticleMaking Place in Bangalore
In the city of Bangalore in southern India, the predominant architectural language is that of conventional global commerce. ‘Bland high‐rise developments’ jostle with shanties and urban sprawl....
View ArticleWoodwork from the Temple of Vadi Parsvanatha
B., J.."Woodwork from the Temple of Vadi Parsvanatha."The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 14 (1919): 13-15.
View ArticleThe wood carvings of Tamil Nadu: an iconographical survey
The value of wood as a medium for making implements for secular and religious purposes has been known to mankind since the dawn of civilization. Some examples have survived till contemporary times. The...
View ArticleEvaluations of a sacred place: Role and religious belief at the Magh Mela
People perceive places differently because of the different material, social, and symbolic aspects of the locations and because individuals have different backgrounds and different reasons for being at...
View ArticleBhubaneswar: contrasting visions in traditional indian and modern european...
The negatively criticized architectural designs in the city of Bhubaneswar in Orrisa, India was a result of administrative controls in the management of Indian cities and Orissa's highly religious...
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