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Making Lahore Modern : Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City /

William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore, focusing on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization shared: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement. Glover reveals that urban change in colonial...

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Main Author: Glover, William J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
Subjects:
City planning > Pakistan > Lahore > History > 19th century.
Architecture > Pakistan > Lahore > 19th century.
Architecture, British colonial > Pakistan > Lahore.
Lahore (Pakistan) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780816653959
081665395X
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • An Urban Palimpsest: The Precolonial Development of Lahore
  • A Colonial Spatial Imagination: British Knowledge of the City and Its Environs
  • Collaborations: Building an Elite Landscape in Lahore's Civil Station
  • Changing Houses: Rethinking and Rebuilding Townhouses and Neighborhoods
  • Anxieties at Home: The Disquieting British Bungalow
  • Thinking with the City: Urban Writing in Colonial Lahore.

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