Monumental matters [electronic resource] : the power, subjectivity, and space of India's Mughal architecture / Santhi Kavuri-Bauer.
Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India's Mughal monuments--including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal--are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent....
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century
- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism
- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire
- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city"
- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments
- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.