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From the first half of the nineteenth century, the architectural history of medieval India has been the subject of diverse books, essays and miscellaneous writings. The present book pulls together the most significant of these writings, revealing the impressive array of historical ideas about India's past that has emerged through the study of its monuments. The writings reproduced here are located by the editor within the specific intellectual, political and socio-cultural contexts within which they emerged and were elaborated. By this means, Monica Juneja makes this anthology a major historiographical intervention which traces the colonial emergence and nationalist development of, as well as contemporary advances in, the discipline of architectural history both within India and in relation to art history in the West. Professor Juneja's introduction also examines the intellectual importance of architectural history for all historians, arguing that the study of India's medieval architecture needs to be made integral to every history of conquest, state-building, and the movements of populations and traditions across the subcontinent. She demonstrates that ideas about buildings and their histories have frequently been polemical and instrumental: they have been politically deployed to construct or fabricate a collective past. They have been used to provide symbolic meanings which have helped subjugate or unify heterogeneous communities and nations. In short, the architectural history of India's contentiously misnamed 'Muslim' period is revealed as the site of tensions between Hindus and Muslims, colonialists and nationalists, traditionalists and postmodernists. This book will open the eyes of general readers and students to the politics of interpreting monuments often taken for granted, even as it attempts to resensitise scholars to the vitality and overwhelming relevance of this sometimes neglected area of historiography.
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Monica Juneja is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi She edits the Medieval History Journal.
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- PublisherSAB
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 8178242281
- ISBN 13 9788178242286
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- LanguageEnglish
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents : Introduction. I. Indigenous initiatives, colonial aesthetics, nationalist views : 1. Asar as-sanadid/Sayyid Ahmad Khan. 2. Indian saracenic architecture/James Fergusson. 3. Indian architecture/E.B. Havell.4. An historical memoir on the qutb : Delhi/J.A. Page. 5. Monuments of the Mughul period/Percy Brown. 6. The Qudsia Bagh at Delhi : key to late Mughal architecture/Hermann Goetz. 7. Tomb of Nizamuddin/Maulvi Zafar Hasan. 8. Mosque of Shaikh 'Abdu-n Nabi/Maulvi Zafar Hasan. 9. Symbolism of the dome/Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. 10. A family of great Mughal architects/M. Abdullah Chaghtai. 11. The qutub complex as a social document/Muhammad Mujeeb. II. Imperial forms, regional structures : 1. The 'Two-and-a-half day' mosque/Michael W. Meister. 2. From tamerlane to the Taj Mahal/Lisa Golombek. 3. The baluster column-a European motif in Mughal architecture and its meaning/Ebba Koch. 4. New light on the history of two early Mughal monuments of Bayana/Iqtidar Alam Khan. 5. The architecture of Raja Man Singh : a study of sub-imperial patronage/Catherine B. Asher. 6. Royal architecture and imperial style at Vijayanagara/George Michell. 7. The architecture of Baha al-Din Tughrul in the region of Bayana, Rajasthan/Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy. 8. Temple Niches and Mihrabs in Bengal/Perween Hasan. 9. Ancient Asian building techniques in Hindu and Muslim structures of the Vijayanagara empire and in subsequent Indo- Islamic monuments/Klaus Fischer. III. The architecture of everyday life : 1. Characteristics of a stepwell/Jutta Jain-Neubauer. 2. Four Mughal 640 pp. Seller Inventory # 38200
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