Jyoti Pandey Sharma, "Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi "
English | ISBN: 0367703734 | 2023 | 210 pages | PDF | 17 MB
No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so many lives as Delhi. This book examines Delhi in the politically and culturally dynamic nineteenth century which was marked midway by the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule as a watershed event. Following British occupation, Delhi became a receptacle for encounters between the centuries-old Mughal traditions and the incoming colonial ideal, producing a traditionalism-modernity binary. Employing the built environment lens, the book traces the architectural trajectory of Delhi as it transitioned from the seventeenth-century Mughal