Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture /

Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India's Mughal monuments--including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal--are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent....

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Autor Principal: Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
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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.