A queer reading of nawabi architecture and the colonial archive : Lucknow queerscapes /

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs Asaf-ud-Daula and Wajid Ali Shah and reveals the colonial bias against queer expression. It offers methods of using queer strategies to read archival evidence against the grain and rewrite...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Mithal, Sonal (Author), Paul, Arul (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2025.
Subjects:	Asafuddaula, > Nawab Wazir of Oudh, > 1748-1797 > Art patronage. Wajid ʻAli Shah, > King of Oudh, > 1822-1887 > Art patronage. Homosexuality and architecture > India > Lucknow. Homosexualité et architecture > Inde > Lucknow. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Gender, sex, and state in nawabi Lucknow
Locating forms of resistance and transgression
Queering the colonial archive
Locating inaccuracies, fallacies, biases in the colonial archive
Counter-archives
Contesting colonial claims
The architecture of Asaf-ud-Daula
Architecture of Wajid Ali Shah
Of vaudeville variety
Of perverse compositions
Of in-tensions and obscurations.