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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    04 July 2025
    10 July 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009345187
    9781009345170
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009345187
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.77kg, 418 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Politics and International Relations
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    Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Politics and International Relations
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    It examines how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism, leisure, and intellectual contemplation during the colonial and early postcolonial eras (1828–1963). It examines the resistance that challenges this ordering, rendering monuments unruly and unassimilable despite state efforts to control their narrative. This exposes the nation's contradictory claims of inclusivity while marginalizing subaltern groups. It guides readers through picturesque landscapes, museums, imperial displays, postcards, travel experiences, Partition refugee camps, and cinema. Analyzing these forms reveals how the archive of Indo-Islamic monuments was shaped through presences and absences. Each chapter examines everyday life, untangles knowable public transcripts, illuminates strategic excisions and hidden transcripts, juxtaposes evidence that has not yet been analyzed in conjunction, reads archival material against the grain, and finds archival layers in unfamiliar places.

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