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Chandra, Aditi

 
9781009345170: Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture
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ISBN 10 : 1009345176 ISBN 13 : 9781009345170
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

It examines how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism, leisure, and intellectual contemplation during the colonial and early postcolonial eras (1828–1963). It examines the resistance that challenges this ordering, rendering monuments unruly and unassimilable despite state efforts to control their narrative. This exposes the nation's contradictory claims of inclusivity while marginalizing subaltern groups. It guides readers through picturesque landscapes, museums, imperial displays, postcards, travel experiences, Partition refugee camps, and cinema. Analyzing these forms reveals how the archive of Indo-Islamic monuments was shaped through presences and absences. Each chapter examines everyday life, untangles knowable public transcripts, illuminates strategic excisions and hidden transcripts, juxtaposes evidence that has not yet been analyzed in conjunction, reads archival material against the grain, and finds archival layers in unfamiliar places.

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À propos de l'auteur

Aditi Chandra is Associate Professor art history at UC Merced. She has held fellowships from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (2013) and the UC President's Office (2019-20). She has curated exhibitions of travel visual culture: 'Imperial Post: Views of Colonial Delhi' and 'Waterscapes and Wet Bodies through the Colonial Eye: West Africa, Hawai'i, and India' and published in International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Journal of South Asian Popular Culture, Third Text Forum, and Art History Pedagogy and Practice. She has also coedited The Nation and Its Margins: Rethinking Community (2019).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1009345176
ISBN 13 
9781009345170
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
418
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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