"This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial North India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India's most traditional cities, the book …
"This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial North India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India's most traditional cities, the book …
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries …