Indian Architecture in Postcards A New Perspective on a Modern Heritage.

Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1920s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Muhidine, Éléonore
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bielefeld : transcript, 2023.
Series:	Architekturen.
Subjects:	Architecture. Art History. Image. India. Photography. Postcards. Urban Planning. Urban Studies. architecture (discipline) ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Architectural modernity in India Sources and perspectives for research. An introduction
Building Postcards: Rössler's Calcutta 1896
Greetings from Bombay! Pictures of Colonial Complexity
Delhi
Beyond its 'appearance'
Transport and Communication as Symbols of Modernity in India: A Cultural Perspective
Before take-off: waiting for India's globalization at the Sahar International Airport in 1974
The Taj Mahal Hotel, Imperial, Sun'n'Sand, Oberoi, and others: the Indian chapter of the 20th-century grand hotel
Image, recto, verso, context. Approaching Deltiology as a method
Framing Fragments The Image, Modernity, and Architecture
List of figures
Authors