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First Garden of the Republic documents the flora and fauna of the Estate across the seasons. It shows how human agency creates and curates this habitat, looking particularly at the quiet yet constant work done by the mails (gardeners). This book explores how plants and animals make the President’s Estate their own, adapting it to their ends, and the challenges these living creatures and their habitats face today.
This volume brings together the scholarly attention of different specialists on the history of art, visual culture, furniture, carpets and textiles, and paintings of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Their chapters provide an illuminating political and cultural history of the interior design of India's presidential residence which was originally designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to be the house for the British viceroy. The book also provides a detailed catalogue of select ...
Walking in the grounds of Lutyens' palace when it was still the viceroy's House, Mahatma Gandhi told Lord Mountbatten that it would have to be turned into a museum once the British had finally departed. Mountbatten protested that, on the contrary, the building was perfectly suited to lend grandeur to Asia's largest democracy. Today, as the home of the Indian president, the Rashtrapati Bhavan is a venue for celebrating important moment in the life of the republic ...
The Rashrrapati Bhavan is part of the narrative of international architecture and town-plabbibg, which entered a new phase at the beginning of the 20th century. It is the last of the many 'palaces; built in Delhi over centuries. It is also the last of the palatial residences built by the British in India. The designing of the Viceroy's House marked a crucial moment in the balavce Indian and British builders, an issue touching the question of style and sunstance, ...
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. I. The birds of Rashtrapati Bhavan Estate: 1. Grey Francolin Francolinus pondicerianus. 2. Indian peafowl Pavo cristatus. 3. Indian spot-billed duck Anas poecilorhyncha. 4. Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis. 5. Black-headed Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus. 6. Red-naped Ibis Pseudibis papillosa. 7. Black-crowned night heron Nycticorax nycticorax. 8. Indian pond Heron Ardeola grayii. 9. Cattle Egret Bubulcus Ibis. 10. ...