Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
[c2002]
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| Series: | Studies in modernity and national identity
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the "East-West" opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier
- The master plan: Contesting conceptions of the modern
- The Capitol Complex: The Rousseauesque Garden of Eden
- The Capitol buildings: The aesthetics of the High Court and the Assembly
- With open hands: Architectural symbolism and the vagaries of political claims
- Afterword: Notes on inheriting a postcolonial modernism.