Title British houses in Late Mughal Delhi / Sylvia Shorto

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 216 pages) : illustrations Series Worlds of the East India Company ; volume 15 Worlds of the East India Company ; v. 15 Contents Knowledge of Delhi: The Eighteenth Century -- Hybrid Accommodations: David Ochterlony, the First Residency and the Mubarak Bagh -- A Lovely Wilderness: Charles Metcalfe and the Garden Houses at Shalimar -- Truly Fairy Palaces: Robert Smith in Delhi and in Europe -- The World Displayed: William Fraser and his House on the Hill -- A Tomb with View: Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe's Dilkusha -- Dreaming of Home Summary "This book explores ambivalence in the domestic building activities of a group of East India Company officials in Delhi in the fifty years following British occupation in 1803. Arguing that houses, their location and their contents directly or subliminally reveal the values and beliefs of the individuals who commissioned and lived in them, it uses houses to examine the changing ways the British manipulated power, both relating to and resisting the pre-existing spatial layout of the city. The re-use of palaces and of monumental religious structures as dwellings, as well as new houses that appeared formally classical but concealed adaptations to local ways of living, show that despite an apparent desire to maintain cultural separation, there was both complexity and contradiction in the interrelationship of the British authority and the failing Mughal polity. The book also shows how room sequencing and function demonstrate a lack of rigid distinction between the official and individual roles played by Company officials. Household objects have multiple meanings depending on their use and context. As the taste and choices made in these houses were primarily those of men, the book also contributes to our understanding of competing models of manhood in British India."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject East India Company -- Employees -- Dwellings -- India -- Delhi SUBJECT East India Company fast Subject Architecture, British colonial -- India -- Delhi HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Architecture, British colonial India -- Delhi Form Electronic book ISBN 9781787443044 1787443043

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