New Delhi: The Last Imperial City

by David A. Johnson and Richard Watson

In New Delhi: The Last Imperial City, Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the British between 1911 and 1931. India's changed political conditions, exacerbated by previous colonial policies like the partition of Bengal, demanded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137469862
• ISBN13: 9781137469861
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"