The Jain Knowledge Warehouses: Traditional Libraries in India
The Jains of western India have preserved hundreds of thousands of handwritten manuscripts for many centuries in their libraries or "knowledge warehouses" (jñān bhaṇḍār). These manuscripts have been an...
View ArticleIndia in America
Coleman, Caryl."India in America."The Decorator and Furnisher 5 (1885): 202-203.
View ArticleHindu Temples in the Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict: Capture and Excess
Developing Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of territorialization and the apparatus of capture, this article explores the role that Sri Lankan Hindu temples have played in the formation of ethnicity and...
View ArticleSelfsame spaces: Gandhi, architecture and allusions in twentieth century India.
In this dissertation, I suggest that the Indian political leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi infused deep and enigmatic meanings into everyday physical objects, particularly buildings. Indeed, the...
View ArticleMapping the Public Space: Discourses on Hegemonies, Identities and Cultural...
The article intends to give a comprehensive understanding of the colonial urbanisation as a cultural process in colonial Odisha centred at Cuttack city as manifest in the evolving public sphere and in...
View ArticleSpatiotemporal urbanization processes in the megacity of Mumbai, India: A...
Several factors contribute to on-going challenges of spatial planning and urban policy in megacities, including rapid population shifts, less organized urban areas, and a lack of data with which to...
View ArticleRe-thinking urban planning in India: Learning from the wedge between the de...
Cities in the global south are undergoing changes in the production structure brought about by globalization and liberalization. These cities also witness significant informalities in terms of shelter...
View ArticleAnalysis of urban growth pattern using remote sensing and GIS: a case study...
Urban growth pattern has a direct influence on urban development processes both at the city and neighbourhood levels, but on the other hand growth pattern is also affected by land and housing policy,...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of the Past: The Development of an 'Official' and...
This article tries to situate the development of archaeology as a discipline in Bengal in the official and the academic sphere covering the period from the first half of the twentieth century to the...
View ArticleLouis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management's Courtyard: Form...
The courtyard form was fundamental to Louis Kahn's institutional architecture. From the Trenton bathhouses and the Salk Institute laboratories to the Exeter library and the Yale Center for British...
View ArticleRe-invigorating the Spirit of Place of Kandy: Urban Design and City Planning...
Kandy – the royal capital established in the 14th Century AD is a city that has undergone constant physical and socio-economic changes while continuing to have unique cultural traditions and rituals...
View ArticleTHE "PALAIS INDIENS" COLLECTION OF 1774: Representing Mughal...
Among the works acquired by the French military officer Jean-Baptiste Gentil (1726–99) during his tenure in India was a group of architectural studies known today as the Palais Indiens (1774). Painted...
View ArticleQuest for Identity
[excerpt] What is identity? Firstly, it is a process, and not a 'found' object. It may be likened to the trail left by civilisation as it moves through history. The trail is the culture, or identity,...
View ArticleContesting Imperialism in Modern Architecture: British India 1920s-1940s.
This paper explores stylistic evolution in training and practice, particularly in Bombay, now Mumbai, and proclaimed by Governor H.B.E. Frere (1815-1884) as "India's first city" in the colony's early...
View ArticleBuilt Space, Environment, Modernism: (Re)reading ‘Tropical Modern’ Architecture
In a quiet spot on the banks of Lake Deduwa on Sri Lanka’s southwest coast, lies the sprawling estate of Lunuganga, the home and garden of the late Geoffrey Bawa, perhaps the best-known of Sri Lanka’s...
View ArticlePower, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau,...
Most studies of the history of the early modern Deccan focus on struggles between the region’s primary centres, that is, the great capital cities such as Bijapur, Vijayanagara, or Golconda. This study,...
View ArticleIdentity and built environment: issues for urban poor
The aim of the research was to examine redevelopment strategies and policies attempting to elevate the identity of the urban poor by reinforcing their socio-cultural characteristics through their built...
View ArticleColombo versus Cannanore: Contrasting Structures of Two Colonial Port Cities...
This article compares the urban structures of early modern Colombo and Cannanore, two South Asian port cities controlled by the Portuguese during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and taken over...
View ArticleThe Quest for Urban Citizenship: Civic Rights, Public Opinion, and Colonial...
Although the issue of citizenship has attracted the interest of some political scientists in relation to the problems of contemporary Indian democracy, historians have generally tended to shy away from...
View ArticleThe dynamics of preserving cultural heritage: the case of Durban’s Kathiawad...
In 1943, the Kathiawad Hindu Seva Samaj brought together diverse castes of Gujarati‐speaking Hindus to promote language and culture. In doing so, it linked itself to Kathiawad in India outside of South...
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