03382nam 22006255 450 991073557850332120251116152048.09783839467169383946716010.1515/9783839467169(CKB)27588436000041(DE-B1597)650152(DE-B1597)9783839467169(PPN)272765821(MiAaPQ)EBC7268884(OCoLC)1390560626(ScCtBLL)07ae9c79-20e7-492f-a714-6df785db3e6f(Perlego)3833786(EXLCZ)992758843600004120230808h20232023 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIndian Architecture in Postcards A New Perspective on a Modern Heritage /ed. by Éléonore MuhidineBielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]©20231 online resource (196 p.)Architekturen ;729783837667165 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Architectural modernity in India Sources and perspectives for research. An introduction -- Building Postcards: Rössler’s Calcutta 1896 -- Greetings from Bombay! Pictures of Colonial Complexity -- Delhi – Beyond its ‘appearance’ -- Transport and Communication as Symbols of Modernity in India: A Cultural Perspective -- Before take-off: waiting for India's globalization at the Sahar International Airport in 1974 -- The Taj Mahal Hotel, Imperial, Sun’n’Sand, Oberoi, and others: the Indian chapter of the 20th-century grand hotel -- Image, recto, verso, context. Approaching Deltiology as a method -- Framing Fragments The Image, Modernity, and Architecture -- List of figures -- AuthorsFocusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1920s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts on architectural history, anthropology, and visual studies, as well as postcard collectors provide new insights into a territory and its architectural heritage which is still largely unknown in Europe, and reflect on the postcard as a medium for historical research.ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use PlanningbisacshArchitecture.Art History.Image.India.Photography.Postcards.Urban Planning.Urban Studies.ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.720.954Bansal Anupamctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbBhatawadekar Shraddha, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbChopra Preetictbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbMuhidine Éléonore, edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtVernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburgfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910735578503321Indian Architecture in Postcards3540464UNINA