Taming the Oriental Bazaar: Architecture of the Market-Halls of Colonial India
Pushkar Sohoni
Taming the Oriental Bazaarexamines the public market hall as a keyarchitectural feature of colonial South Asia. Representing a transition in the
architectural programme, these buildings were meant to be monuments andmarkers of modernity in South Asia.
The book:
•Explores how market halls became an essential feature of colonialsettlements from the mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries;
•Discusses public health policies and legislations central to the concernsof market hall sanitation;
•Reviews the elements of modernity, including institutions and systemsestablished in the nineteenth century as India went from Company to
Crown;
•Studies the specific circumstances and histories of market halls inthetownsandcitiesofBengaluru,Vadodara,Mumbai,Kolkata,
Hyderabad, Karachi, Lahore, Chennai, Pune, and others.
A key text in the study of colonial architecture, this book will be of interest tostudents, researchers as well as general readers of architecture, colonialism,history of architecture, history of medicine, public health, urbanism, andSouth Asian studies.Pushkar Sohoniis Associate Professor and Chair of Humanities and SocialSciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER),Pune, India.
architectural programme, these buildings were meant to be monuments andmarkers of modernity in South Asia.
The book:
•Explores how market halls became an essential feature of colonialsettlements from the mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries;
•Discusses public health policies and legislations central to the concernsof market hall sanitation;
•Reviews the elements of modernity, including institutions and systemsestablished in the nineteenth century as India went from Company to
Crown;
•Studies the specific circumstances and histories of market halls inthetownsandcitiesofBengaluru,Vadodara,Mumbai,Kolkata,
Hyderabad, Karachi, Lahore, Chennai, Pune, and others.
A key text in the study of colonial architecture, this book will be of interest tostudents, researchers as well as general readers of architecture, colonialism,history of architecture, history of medicine, public health, urbanism, andSouth Asian studies.Pushkar Sohoniis Associate Professor and Chair of Humanities and SocialSciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER),Pune, India.
Categorías:
Año:
2023
Edición:
1
Editorial:
Routledge
Idioma:
english
ISBN 10:
0367528991
ISBN 13:
9780367528997
Archivo:
PDF, 13.86 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2023
Amazon 
Barnes & Noble 
Bookshop.org
¿Quieres añadir una librería? Contáctanos a través de support@z-lib.do
Convierte archivos
Más resultados de búsqueda
Otros beneficios 
Términos más frecuentes
Listas de libros relacionados
