British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi

by Sylvia Shorto

Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early nineteenth-century British India.

This book explores ambivalence in the domestic building activities of a group of East India Company officials in Delhi in the fifty years following British occupation in 1803. Arguing that houses, their location and their contentsdirectly or subliminally reveal the values and beliefs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783272082
• ISBN13: 9781783272082
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"