'Empire Building' is a new account of the East India Company's
impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent's
built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and
infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these
initiatives through a lens of 'political building' (using Indian
contractors and labourers). Railways, docks, municipal buildings,
freemasons' lodges, hotels, race-courses, barracks, cemeteries,
statues, canals--everything the British erected made a political
statement, even if unconsciously; hence this book is concerned less
with architectural styles, more with subtle infiltration into the
minds of those who saw and used these structures. It assesses, in
turn, Indian responses to the changing landscape. Indians often
reacted favourably to new manufacturing technologies from Britain,
like minting and gunpowder, while the British learnt from and
adapted local methods. From military engineers and cartography to
imported raw metals and steam power, Llewellyn-Jones considers the
social and environmental changes wrought by colonialism. This
period was marked by a shift from formerly private,
Indian-controlled functions, like education, entertainment, trading
and healing, to British public institutions like universities,
theatres, chambers of commerce and hospitals.
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