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An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj

Author Thomas R. Metcalf
Publisher Oxford University Press
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ISBN / ASIN0195656024
ISBN-139780195656022
Sales Rank5,278,729
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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An Imperial Vision examines the relationship between culture and power expressed in the architectural forms the British employed in India. From the great monuments of New Delhi to the most obsure structures in dusty country towns, these buildings visibly represented in stone the choices the British made in politics as imperial rulers. Viewed together they enhanced the hold of the empire over the ruler and the ruled alike.