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This well-researched book examines the relationship between culture and power expressed in architectural forms employed by the British in India. From the grand monuments of New Delhi to the more quotidian functional structures of smaller towns, these buildings reflect the choices made by the British in their politics as imperial rulers. Much of this architecture drew on European classical forms, for these had long evoked a vision of empire in Europe. But, after ...
Addressing a wide range of issues, the essays in this collection reflect the changing currents of scholarship in the historiography of India in the last four decades. Written over a span of forty years from the 1960s to the present, they demonstrate how Thomas R. Metcalf has shaped the emerging methodologies and trends to examine more enduring issues from various angles. The essays are grouped in three sections: land tenure and land policy, colonial architecture, ...
An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the centre of a newly globalized system of trade, investment and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to Eastern Asia. His book, ...