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

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

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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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Main Author: Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Monuments.
Islamic architecture.
Architecture, Mogul Empire.
ARCHITECTURE > Regional.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
Architecture islamique > Inde > Histoire.
Architecture moghole > Histoire.
Islamic architecture > India > History.
Monuments > India > History.
Architecture, Mogul Empire > India > History.
India.
Inde > Histoire > 1526-1765.
India > History > 1526-1765.
History.
Electronic books.
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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.

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