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Chandigarh's le Corbusier The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India

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ISBN-10: 0295982071

ISBN-13: 9780295982076

Edition: 2002

Authors: Vikramaditya Prakash

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Chronology
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits