Monumental matters : : the power, subjectivity, and space of India's Mughal architecture / / Santhi Kavuri-Bauer.
Monumental Matters analyzes the role of Mughal architecture-magnificent tombs, mosques, forts, and palaces, such as the Taj Mahal-in India s cultural politics from the colonial era to the present.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based on print version record |
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Table of Contents:
- Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century
- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism
- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire
- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city"
- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments
- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.