Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empire within the Indian Subcontinent, contrasting representations of such spaces within contemporary discourse with analysis of the evidence of actual interiors and the social practices there engendered.
Trade Review"'This book makes a major contribution in an important and largely neglected field. It heralds the coming of age not only the study of the colonial interior but the interior more generally, a field which stands at the intersection of design history, architectural history, anthropology, cultural geography and social and imperial history.' Professor Tim Barringer, Yale University"
Table of ContentsList of figures
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
1. Locating the East Indian home: settlement, forms of housing and the local environment
2. Objects, memory and identity: the Anglo-Indian domestic sphere
3. ‘Furnished in English style’: globalization of local elite domestic interiors
4. Domesticating authority in the public spaces of empire
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
