The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones in India
India has experimented with enclave-based growth through export zones at least since 1964. These zones were developed as regions with limited regulation to encourage export growth, which would earn the...
View ArticleThe role of ideas in India’s economic reforms
The dissertation highlights the role of ideological change among Indian intellectuals in bringing about and sustaining India's economic liberalization in the 1990s. Recent advances in behavioral...
View ArticleAnanda Coomaraswamy: The Universal Man
Ninety-one years ago almost to the day was born Ananda Coomaraswamy who synthesised faith and reason to become one of the greatest exponents and interpreters of the spirit of Asia. "There are finer...
View ArticleA PLACE IN THE SUN: The Thomas Cubitt Lecture for 1983 by Charles Correa
My subject is concerned with building in a world far removed from Britain. India—where a great many things are quite different: the climate, the energy resources, the social patterns, the cultural...
View ArticleEmbedded states: The economic transitions of China and India
China and India, two equally principal countries in Asia, launched economic transitions at roughly the same time--around 1980. Yet, each country's policies toward foreign direct investment (FDI) were...
View ArticleProductions of identity in (post)colonial "Indian" architecture:...
This dissertation examines coloniality as a process of subjectification by studying the colonial transformation of architectural culture and built environment of post-1857 Jaipur,India. Examining the...
View ArticleGentrifying the State, Gentrifying Participation: Elite Governance Programs...
Recent scholarship has highlighted the central role of India's ‘new middle class’ in gentrifying and ‘cleaning up’ its cities. According to this literature, this class experienced a political awakening...
View ArticleThe Public, the Private, and the Sacred
[excerpt] We live in a world of manifest phenomena. Yet, since the beginning of time, man has intuitively sensed the existence of another world: a nonmanifest world whose presence underlies — and makes...
View ArticleCivil Society Savage City: Spaces of Urban Governance in Chennai
This dissertation is about a new regime of governance in Chennai, India. It is my assertion that this regime emerges out of three interrelated processes: first, there is a changing relationship between...
View ArticleRepresentation in India's Sacred Images: Objective vs. Metaphysical...
Coomaraswamy and other art interpreters have read into Indian images metaphysical meanings extrapolated from scriptural sources. In this article it is argued that such meanings, with which image-making...
View ArticleThe Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form
[excerpt] During the past decade, terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, London, and other major cities have been popularly regarded as having profound impacts on the security and confidence of...
View ArticlePaupers and Patrons : Class Gender and Regime Politics in Calcutta’s rural...
For an unbroken twenty-two years, and unlike most of India's other states, West Bengal has been ruled by the Left Front, a coalition of communist parties. Much of the research on this region has been...
View ArticleNew Evidence for the Jagannātha Cult in Seventeenth Century Nepal
The Kathmandu valley in the seventeenth century was very prosperous, the bulk of its wealth derived from the trade which flowed through the valley between Tibet and the Indian plains. The ancient urban...
View ArticleThe Value of Design : A Study of Pedestrian Perception in New Delhi, India
This thesis studies the influence of values and perception on pedestrian behaviour, to recommend how places can be designed to satisfy their user needs. By satisfying needs we mean creating user...
View ArticleThe political life of information: "Information" and the practice...
Information is increasingly hailed as a tool to achieve good governance. This dissertation challenges claims that naturalize the relationship between information and good governance. I argue that such...
View ArticleDesigning the present : the Cole circle and the architecture of (an) imperial...
The dissertation studies a fifty-year period m the history of the Department of Science and Art (DSA), based in South Kensington,London. The DSA was founded in the aftermath of the Great Exhibition,...
View ArticleCalculating without numbers: aesthetic governmentality in Delhi's slums
This article looks at the manner in which knowledge of slums in Delhi has been collected, assembled and circulated in two different moments of urban improvement to explore the relationship between...
View ArticleMetropolitan and Traditional: An Exploration of the Semantics in Contemporary...
Implicit in our appreciation of art is our consideration of its originality: to what extent is the artwork we are viewing ‘original’? In the art market, the word ‘original’ is countered by the terms...
View ArticleArt. V.—Description of the Amravati Tope in Guntur
Hitherto our knowledge of ancient Buddhist architecture in India has been derived mainly from the rock cut examples. These, though most valuable for the purpose, from their number and immutability,...
View ArticleIndia's 'Garden City'? Bangalore's disappearing...
Known as 'India's Garden City', Bangalore's evolution from town to megalopolis has been among the fastest in the world. Over the past 30 years the city has seen exceptional growth and expansion of the...
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