Shobhi, Chandra, and Prithvi Datta. "Kalyāṇa is Wrecked: The Remaking of a...
Perhaps no other pre-modern city has captured the Kannada cultural imagination more than Kalyāṇa. This medieval capital of the Cāḷukyas and the Kālacūris has been re-imagined and re-presented...
View ArticlePunja, Shobita. "Teaching comparative religions in india through heritage."...
This article is a case study of a program designed by INTACH for Teaching Comparative Religions and Heritage. The purpose of the program was to evolve a creative and educational experience for students...
View ArticleMishra, Suman. "‘The Shame Games’: a textual analysis of Western press...
This study examines the news coverage of the Commonwealth Games in India in major newspapers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Textual analysis of news articles reveals a heavy focus on...
View ArticlePerera, Nihal. "Contesting visions: hybridity, liminality and authorship of...
This article examines the authorship of the plan for Chandigarh, the new capital of the Punjab, created following its partition consequential on Indian independence. The literature on Chandigarh's...
View ArticleJamal, Osman. "E B Havell: The art and politics of Indianness." Third Text...
One hundred years ago, in 1896, Ernest Binfield Havell (1861-1934), appointed that year the Principal of Calcutta Art School, hectored his Indian students to get back to painting in their own (Indian)...
View ArticleJames-Chakraborty, Kathleen. "Beyond postcolonialism: New directions for the...
Overturning assumptions that nonwestern architecture has been static over time, new scholarship focused on colonial and postcolonial architecture and urbanism and on nonwestern modernism has made a...
View ArticleVaid, Uchita, and Gary W. Evans. "Housing Quality and Health." Environment...
Slum rehabilitation programs in economically developing countries are designed to improve housing and enhance residents’ health and well-being. Yet no empirical research has directly investigated these...
View ArticleDe, Indranil. "Slum improvement in India: determinants and approaches."...
This paper investigates living conditions in Indian slums, extent of improvement of basic services between 2002 and 2012 and determinants of improvement based on National Sample Survey data. The pace...
View ArticleNakamura, Shohei. "Does slum formalisation without title provision stimulate...
Though previous studies have examined how formalising land tenure affects housing improvements in informal settlements, the role of tenure security and its long-term influence remain unclear. In...
View ArticleDe, Indranil. "Slum improvement in India: determinants and approaches."...
This paper investigates living conditions in Indian slums, extent of improvement of basic services between 2002 and 2012 and determinants of improvement based on National Sample Survey data. The pace...
View ArticleMukhija, Vinit. "Enabling Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai: Policy Paradox in...
This paper examines the complexities involved in 'enabling' the provision of housing in developing countries. In conventional thinking the enabling strategy focuses on the ability of the private...
View ArticleNakamura, Shohei. "Impact of slum formalization on self-help housing...
This paper investigates the extent to which slum notification, a tenure formalization policy that officially recognises settlements as slums and ensures the occupancy rights of the residents, has...
View ArticleSampson, Gary D.. "The success of Samuel Bourne in India." History of...
In their 1955 edition of The History of Photography Helmut and Alison Gernsheim noted that the work of Samuel Bourne has ‘undeservedly fallen into oblivion’. They recognized the outstanding quality of...
View ArticleFlatt, Emma J.. "Spices, Smells and Spells: The Use of Olfactory Substances...
This article examines five inter-connected conjuration spells, found in the sixteenth-century Bijapuri astrological encyclopaedia, the Nujūm al-ʿulūm (The Stars of the Sciences, 1570), each of which is...
View ArticleLegg, Stephen. "Governmentality, congestion and calculation in colonial...
This paper seeks to explore a different way of examining the ‘difference’ of European and colonial governments, showing how the Indian colonial state privileged investments in political, rather than...
View ArticleChattopadhyay, Swati. "Cities of power and protest: spatial legibility and...
It is a commonplace in Indian history that the decision to move the colonial capital from Calcutta to New Delhi was spurred by the political landscape of Calcutta: anticolonial nationalism had made...
View ArticleHogan, Trevor, Tim Bunnell, Choon-Piew Pow, Eka Permanasari, and Sirat...
The majority of Asia’s cities are being constructed from private funding and by private labor. This has always been the case for so-called informal settlements. Recently, however, the newly acquired...
View ArticleBanerji, Debashish. "The Orientalism of E B Havell." Third Text 16, no. 1...
Ernest Binfield Havell (1861–1934) is a relatively obscure figure who makes a few brief appearances on the stage of Indian nationalist history in the last decades of the 19th and early decades of the...
View ArticleHabibi, Mohsen, Hamideh Farahmandian, and Reza Basiri Mojdehi. "Reflection of...
Cinema as an influential mass medium continuously represents different spaces, environments, events, and symbols, and through which it reproduces viewers’ social reminiscence and merges imagination and...
View ArticleLos, S.. "Integration between art and science in architectural design."...
The paper deals with a problem that has been crucial in teaching and practising architectural design since the XVIII century, when the separation between the Academies and the Polytechnics denied the...
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