Imperial Conversations: Indo-Britons and the Architecture of South India

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Yoda Press, 2007 - 326 páginas
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.
 

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Muhammad Ali Khan Nawab of Arcot George Willison oil on canvas 1795
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Map of Madras 1798
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Map of Madras 1859
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Beach of Madras William Simpson 1867
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Map of British Expansion in South India
26
St Andrews foundation plan showing 150 brick and pottery wells
104
East India House Leadenhall Street 1817
114
St Andrews the interior
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St Andrews east elevation
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CHAPTER 3
135
View of school hall from street
136
Hall front verandah
137
Aerial view Pachaiyappa School
138

Map of British Expansion in north India
27
Tottikkkalai Vedacal Mudaliar
31
Sir Madava Rao and Lord Napier
41
A view of part of St Thome Street Fort St George 1803
45
Map showing principal monuments and sites of South India
46
Insets for Map 10
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Trichinopoly Palace toplit wagon vault eighteenth century
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Madurai Palace toplit dome
49
Chandragiri Palace Tirupati Chisholm 1883
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CHAPTER 2
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Zion Church Tranquebar c 1717 official church of the Danish East India Company
63
St Georges Church Madras side elevation
65
Banqueting Hall Madras c 1800
69
Ruins of the Palace Madura Thomas and William Daniell aquatint c 1798 showing vaulted chamber domes and wagon vaults
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Gol Gumbaz Bijapur c 1660 cross section
75
Gol Gumbaz Bijapur
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Thanjavur Palace domes over throne area
78
Thanjavur Palace stepped vault and flat roof with tower on the right
79
James Gibbs circular design for St MartinintheFields London section
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James Gibbs circular design for St MartinintheFields London plan
84
St Andrews southwest elevation
85
St Andrews ground floor plan
86
St Andrews section
87
St Andrews roof arches in the pediment
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St Andrews stepped dome and arches
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Mahabodhi shrine c second century conjectural reconstruction
91
Bhitargaon shrine c fifth century conjectural reconstruction
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The Gola Bankipur designed by John Garstin 1786
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CHAPTER 6
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Napier Museum Trevandrum Thiruvananthapuram by Chisholm 1872
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Padmanabhapuram Palace elevation with clocktower
245
Francis Fowke proposal for the South Kensington Museum c 1860
247
Presidency College c 1871
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Senate House ground floor plan
264
Senate House roof plan
265
Senate House painted glass window
267
Plans and elevations House in the Country or Temple of Memory 1804
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Senate House colonnade arch details
269
Madurai Palace colonnade
270
Detail of dome over turret
271
Senate House parapet
272
Rathas at Mahabalipuram showing pointed arches at the ends of shala roof c seventh century
273
Senate House hall
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Senate House staircase detail
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Senate House University of Bombay c 1874 designed by G G Scott
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Senate House University of Calcutta c 1872 designed by Walter Granville
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Lawrence Asylum Ootacamund c 1872
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TítuloImperial Conversations: Indo-Britons and the Architecture of South India
AutorShanti Jayewardene-Pillai
EditorYoda Press, 2007
ISBN8190363425, 9788190363426
Largo326 páginas
  
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