A Queer Reading Of Nawabi Architecture And The Colonial Archive
Author: Sonal Mithal Arul Paul
ISBN: 978-1032988269
Price: Rs. 945.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs Asaf-ud-Daula and Wajid Ali Shah and reveals the colonial bias against queer expression. It offers methods of using queer strategies to read archival evidence against the grain and rewrite erased, overlooked, and suppressed histories. The book provides its readers a unique queer postcolonial architectural history of Lucknow from 1775?1857. It highlights the nawabs? non-normative expressions, which not only offered a fierce resistance to the colonial enterprise but also were instrumental in furthering Lucknow as a cultural center. It simultaneously extracts parameters from queer studies and redefines them to illustrate ways in which queer architecture can be characterized. It reconstructs the footprint of nawabi architecture erased by the colonial enterprise and places it back on map?an exercise not undertaken meticulously until now.
Browse this title within our Arts, Literature and Humanities collection. Edition details: Images in this review, en, 228 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-1032988269.
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Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- en • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-1032988269
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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What is this book about?
A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs Asaf-ud-Daula and Wajid Ali Shah and reveals the colonial bias against queer expression. It offers methods of using queer strategies to read archival evidence against the grain and...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Arts, Literature and Humanities and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Sonal Mithal Arul Paul.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book for the way it boldly rewrites architectural history through a queer, postcolonial lens. By reading colonial archives against the grain, it restores erased narratives of Nawabi Lucknow and reveals how non-normative expressions shaped space, culture, and resistance. Thought-provoking and meticulously researched, it offers you fresh methods, new vocabulary, and a powerful reminder that architecture is never neutral—it’s deeply political, personal, and alive with hidden stories.
- Published by Taylor & Francis.
- Language: en.
- Page count: 228.
Catalog Description
A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs Asaf-ud-Daula and Wajid Ali Shah and reveals the colonial bias against queer expression. It offers methods of using queer strategies to read archival evidence against the grain and rewrite erased, overlooked, and suppressed histories. The book provides its readers a unique queer postcolonial architectural history of Lucknow from 1775?1857. It highlights the nawabs? non-normative expressions, which not only offered a fierce resistance to the colonial enterprise but also were instrumental in furthering Lucknow as a cultural center. It simultaneously extracts parameters from queer...
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