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Imperial Delhi

Author : Andreas Volwahsen
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Delhi written by Andreas Volwahsen and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designated by King George V to replace Calcutta as capital of British India,New Delhi was constructed between 1912 and 1929 under the steady eye of architect Sir Edward Lutyens who sought to bring to this British Colony a sense of classicism, order, and institutional beauty. Brimming with more than 300 color and black and white illustrations, plans and photographs, this book presents the most comprehensive examination to date of how this city was envisioned, planned and constructed From the massive war memorial arch to the spacious gardens and the gloriously imposing Viceroy's House, the evidence of Lutyens ̕architectural genius is everywhere throughout New Delhi. Architectural historian Andreas Volwahsen discusses the importance of Lutyens ̕work and provides a fascinating account of the making of a city: the contentious debates and cultural considerations, the inspiration and the painstaking construction, and finally the ways in which New Delhi has evolved into a modern city. With the growing interest in the preservation of historic sites worldwide, this magnificently detailed yet highly accessible history is certain to become a classic in the fields of architecture and urban design.

New Delhi: The Last Imperial City

Author : D. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137469870
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book New Delhi: The Last Imperial City written by D. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the British between 1911 and 1931.

Delhi Metropolitan

Author : Ranjana Sengupta
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9386057808
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Delhi Metropolitan written by Ranjana Sengupta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My understanding of this ferocious, restless, relentless metropolis is that each of us who lives in this city carries a unique, if virtual, Delhi inside our heads.' Independence, four million refugees from Pakistan and the overwhelming presence of visible and invisible power that flows from New Delhi being the capital have transformed it from the unruffled imperial town it once was to the fearsome metropolis it is today. And yet, says Ranjana Sengupta, this largely unloved city deserves to be loved. Delhi is home to the most diverse population of any city in the country. The unceasing influx of migrants has unleashed new urban architectures of opulence and deprivation. Different groups have set up their own, different universes, and these manage to coexist, not unhappily. And somewhere between the futurist Gurgaon skyline and the proliferating slums, alongside the march of the Metro and the refurbishment of Khan Market, lie Delhi's unsung sagas—the memories, the passions and the unspoken expectation that the city will change lives. Sengupta illustrates how Delhi is essentially the creation of refugees of all kinds, from those fleeing plundered homes within and across the border to the adventurers who have flocked to the city for the greater opportunities of employment or simply to be close to the hub of political power. The newer Delhi, she says, in its turn gained from the accumulated and diverse talent and capital it acquired from these people, although haphazard development poses a great danger to it. Delhi Metropolitan tracks the changes from the time 'going to CP' was almost the only leisure activity for the middle class, looks at the subtle reinventions of government colonies and the shining new suburbs, and inspects the footprints of 'Punjabification'. Have all these actually managed to colonize this extravagant, indefinable and unlikely city? In a work of immense detail, at once informed and entertaining, Ranjana Sengupta proffers an answer.

Delhi OMG!

Author : Vinod Nair
Publisher : Om Books International
ISBN 13 : 9380070683
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Delhi OMG! written by Vinod Nair and published by Om Books International. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delhi OMG! is the story of one man’s struggle for survival in the colorful, yet tough Indian city of Delhi. Summary Of The Book Delhi OMG! is the story of a man named Dinesh. It is set in the big, bad city of Delhi, traversing some of the key places in the city and exposing its shocking underbelly. Dinesh is a middle class man who goes from living in government flats in Netaji Nagar to a posh, luxurious DLF residence. As Dinesh goes about his life in Delhi, he encounters various characters from all walks of life. His journey also takes him to several hot-spots of the city, acquainting him with a different side of Delhi, a shocking side often hidden under the cloak of superficiality. At once humorous and hard-hitting, the story presents the vibrant as well as the dark side of life in Delhi. The book explores themes like bribery, obsession with foreign women, sex trafficking, and the well-known fixation of Delhiites on the concept of self-image. Common perceptions about the city of Delhi are once again brought to the fore, and perhaps even strengthened by the narrative. Delhi OMG! was first published in 2012 by Om Books International. It received positive reviews. About Vinod Nair Vinod Nair is an Indian management professional and author. He has written books like Dynamics Of Hotel Management Issues And Perspectives, and Delhi OMG!. Born in 1967 in New Delhi, Nair graduated with a B.Com degree from Delhi University. He then studied International Management at the chartered Management Institute, UK. He is currently employed with an American multinational company and heads its Human Resources Division. Nair lives in Gurgaon with his wife and their daughter, Carissa.

Indian Summer

Author : Robert Grant Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300031287
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Indian Summer written by Robert Grant Irving and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imperial Conversations

Author : Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai
Publisher : Yoda Press
ISBN 13 : 9788190363426
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Conversations written by Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai and published by Yoda Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century was a time of profound upheaval when economic and political control of southern India passed from native kings to the East India Company. Hand-in-hand with the resultant conflicts and skirmishes, a process of cultural sharing was gaining ground which went on to manifest itself in the form of a flourishing imperial cultural in the nineteenth century.

Delhi

Author : Arthur Dudney
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9384544310
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Delhi written by Arthur Dudney and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time’ - Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot The megacity that is today’s Delhi is built upon thick layers of history. For a millennium, Delhi has been at the crossroads of trade, culture, and politics. The stories of its buildings and great historical personalities have been told many times, but this book approaches the past of India’s capital through its literary culture. By focusing on writers and thinkers, we meet a colourful cast of characters only glancingly mentioned in political histories. Many Delhiites are surprised to learn that the language of their city’s cultural heyday was Persian. Despite first being brought to India by invaders, it eventually became an authentically Indian language used in both administration and literature. Although it was cultivated by an elite, it was also a widely available language of aspiration and opportunity, like English today. It connected India to the wider world, and the Indian Subcontinent, particularly Delhi, was once a place where talented poets and scholars from the whole Persian cultural world – from Turkey to eastern China – came to make their fortunes. Its traces remain everywhere but Persian is effectively a dead language in India today.

Delhi

Author : Sam Miller
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312612370
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Delhi written by Sam Miller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative portrait of one of the world’s largest cities, delving behind the tourist facade to illustrate the people and places beyond the realms of the conventional travelogue Sam Miller set out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as “India’s dreamtown—and its purgatory.” He treads the city streets, making his way through the city and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinations—Nehru Place, Rohini, Ghazipur, and Gurgaon—which most writers and travelers ignore. His quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the overlooked, and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of call make appearances: the ancient monuments, the imperial buildings, and the celebrities of modern Delhi. But it is through his encounters with Delhi’s people—from a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of a police brass band—that Miller creates this richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller, like so many of the people he meets, is a migrant in one of the world’s fastest growing megapolises, and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. He possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for life’s diversities, for all the marvelous and sublime moments that illuminate people’s lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one that unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung, and the unfamiliar.

Building Histories

Author : Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633189X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Building Histories written by Mrinalini Rajagopalan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective “archival” truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument—far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.

Hailey

Author : John W. Cell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521178
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Hailey written by John W. Cell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of William Hailey's career in the Indian civil Service and as an African expert.

Trees of Delhi

Author : Pradip Krishen
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780144000708
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Trees of Delhi written by Pradip Krishen and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book introduces you to every tree you are likely to see in the city or in semi-wilderness areas like the Ridge. You do not have to be a botanist to enjoy this book: everything is explained in simple language. This field guide will help you recognize many of the trees you will see around you. Extensive colour pictures and clear illustrations on how to use the annotated Leaf Keys make identification of individual trees easy.

Delhi Reborn

Author : Rotem Geva
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503632121
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Delhi Reborn written by Rotem Geva and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city, this book revisits one of the most dramatic episodes in its history, telling the story of how the city was remade by the twin events of partition and independence. Treating decolonization as a process that unfolded from the late 1930s into the mid-1950, Rotem Geva traces how India and Pakistan became increasingly territorialized in the imagination and practice of the city's residents, how violence and displacement were central to this process, and how tensions over belonging and citizenship lingered in the city and the nation. She also chronicles the struggle, after 1947, between the urge to democratize political life in the new republic and the authoritarian legacy of colonial rule, augmented by the imperative to maintain law and order in the face of the partition crisis. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Geva reveals the period from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s as a twilight time, combining features of imperial framework and independent republic. Geva places this liminality within the broader global context of the dissolution of multiethnic and multireligious empires into nation-states and argues for an understanding of state formation as a contest between various lines of power, charting the links between different levels of political struggle and mobilization during the churning early years of independence in Delhi.

Delhi's Diplomatic Domains

Author : Gladys Abankwa-Meier-Klodt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788176212557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Delhi's Diplomatic Domains written by Gladys Abankwa-Meier-Klodt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Environmental Crisis of Delhi

Author : Sanjay Yadav
Publisher : Worldwide Books
ISBN 13 : 9788188054039
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Crisis of Delhi written by Sanjay Yadav and published by Worldwide Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how migration is responsible for the destruction of Delhi's environment.

Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions

Author : Rafael Aguilar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319994417
Total Pages : 2536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions written by Rafael Aguilar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 2536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC) that was held in Cusco, Peru in 2018. It disseminates recent advances in the areas related to the structural analysis of historical and archaeological constructions. The challenges faced in this field show that accuracy and robustness of results rely heavily on an interdisciplinary approach, where different areas of expertise from managers, practitioners, and scientists work together. Bearing this in mind, SAHC 2018 stimulated discussion on the new knowledge developed in the different disciplines involved in analysis, conservation, retrofit, and management of existing constructions. This book is organized according to the following topics: assessment and intervention of archaeological heritage, history of construction and building technology, advances in inspection and NDT, innovations in field and laboratory testing applied to historical construction and heritage, new technologies and techniques, risk and vulnerability assessments of heritage for multiple types of hazards, repair, strengthening, and retrofit of historical structures, numerical modeling and structural analysis, structural health monitoring, durability and sustainability, management and conservation strategies for heritage structures, and interdisciplinary projects and case studies. This volume holds particular interest for all the community interested in the challenging task of preserving existing constructions, enable great opportunities, and also uncover new challenges in the field of structural analysis of historical and archeological constructions.

A Moral Technology

Author : Leo C. Coleman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501707914
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Moral Technology written by Leo C. Coleman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India over the past century, electrification has meant many things: it has been a colonial gift of modern technology, a tool of national integration and political communication, and a means of gauging the country's participation in globalization. Electric lights have marked out places of power, and massive infrastructures have been installed in hopes of realizing political promises. In A Moral Technology, the grids and wires of an urban public utility are revealed to be not only material goods but also objects of intense moral concern. Leo Coleman offers a distinctive anthropological approach to electrification in New Delhi as more than just an economic or industrial process, or a "gridding" of social and political relations. It may be understood instead as a ritual action that has formed modern urban communities and people’s sense of citizenship, and structured debates over state power and political legitimacy.Coleman explores three historical and ethnographic case studies from the founding of New Delhi as an imperial capital city, to its reshaping as a national capital for post-independence India, up to its recent emergence as a contemporary global city. These case studies closely describe technological politics, rituals, and legal reforms at key moments of political change in India, and together they support Coleman’s argument that ritual performances, moral judgments, and technological installations combine to shape modern state power, civic life, and political community.

Negotiating Cultures

Author : Pilar Maria Guerrieri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199091730
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Cultures written by Pilar Maria Guerrieri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on one of the largest megacities in the world—Delhi—this volume is a rare peek into the ineluctable process of hybridization between Indian and ‘other’ cultures within its local architecture and urban planning. The book explores a segment of the history of Delhi from 1912 through 1962, when the contemporary megacity was born, making a comparison between pre- and post-Independence, which is relatively neglected in academia. The author traces architectural and urban elements of the city of Delhi to understand how foreign developmental models were indigenized, the resistance encountered in the process, and finally their adaptation to local architectural contexts. Highlighting the complexities of ‘multiple Delhis’ with different or simultaneous cultural influences as well as with the various ways those influences have been interpreted or contextualized, the author offers a fresh insight into what is happening in Delhi’s globalized built environment nowadays. The book aims to unearth the social relations emerging from the constant flux in style of architecture and its related elements in an urbanized area.