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British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi (Hardcover)
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British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi (Hardcover)
Series: Worlds of the East India Company
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Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the
complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early
nineteenth-century British India. This book explores ambivalence in
the domestic building activities of a group of East India Company
officials in Delhi in the fifty years following British occupation
in 1803. Arguing that houses, their location and their
contentsdirectly or subliminally reveal the values and beliefs of
the individuals who commissioned and lived in them, it uses houses
to examine the changing ways the British manipulated power, both
relating to and resisting the pre-existing spatial layout of the
city. The re-use of palaces and of monumental religious structures
as dwellings, as well as new houses that appeared formally
classical but concealed adaptations to local ways of living, show
that despitean apparent desire to maintain cultural separation,
there was both complexity and contradiction in the
interrelationship of the British authority and the failing Mughal
polity. The book also shows how room sequencing and
functiondemonstrate a lack of rigid distinction between the
official and individual roles played by Company officials.
Household objects have multiple meanings depending on their use and
context. As the taste and choices made in these houses were
primarily those of men, the book also contributes to our
understanding of competing models of manhood in British India.
SYLVIA SHORTO, an independent scholar, was Associate Professor in
the Department of Architecture and Design at the American
University of Beirut until the end of 2017. She writes on
architecture as material culture in colonial contexts, crossing
scales from urban environments to individual objects contained in
domesticsettings.
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