Taming the Oriental Bazaar: Architecture of the Market-Halls of Colonial India

by Pushkar Sohoni

Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia. Representing a transition in the architectural programme, these buildings were meant to be monuments and markers of modernity in South Asia.

The book:

Explores how market-halls became an essential feature of colonial settlements from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries Discusses public health policies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036748711X
• ISBN13: 9780367487119
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"