Gandhinagar : building national identity in postcolonial India
"Exploring the impact of modernist architecture on India as a whole, Kalia suggests that the style gained acceptance because its parsimonious designs and unadorned spaces never represented a threat to a religiously pluralist country anxious to create a secular identity. He explains how two competing versions of Indian history and ideology - Gandhi's and Jawaharlal Nehru's - employed modernism's ideals for their own separate ends. Serving two masters, as Kalia illustrates, created constrictions and tensions evident in the building of Gandhinagar and in the careers of many Indian architects, including Doshi, Charles Correa, and Achyut Kanvinde."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, ©2004
xiv, 165 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781570035449, 157003544X
54501523
The making of the Gujarat state
The politics of site
The Kahn seminar in Ahmedabad
The plan and architecture
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