A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved - both the colonizer and the colonized. Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions. Providing a thorough exploration of these tensions, Colonial Modernities challenges the traditional literature on the architecture and infrastructure of the former European empires, not least that of the British Indian 'Raj' International experts present an illustrated collection of essays exploring the societal impact of colonial architecture and engineering on the colonized and the colonizers. Acknowledgments vii List of Contributors viii Part I: Frames of Discourse 1(66) Between Materiality and Representation: Framing an Architectural Critique of Colonial South Asia 3(24) Peter Scriver Vikramaditya Prakash Stones and Texts: The Architectural Historiography of Colonial India and its Colonial-Modern Contexts 27(24) Peter Scriver The Stone Books of Orientalism 51(16) Stephen Cairns Part II: Institutional Frameworks 67(82) Empire-Building and Thinking in the Public Works Department of British India 69(24) Peter Scriver ``Strangers within the Gate'': Public Works and Industrial Art Reform 93(22) Arindam Dutta Between Copying and Creation: The Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details 115(12) Vikramaditya Prakash Institutional Audiences and Architectural Style: The Napier Museum 127(22) Paul Walker Part III: Domestic Frames of Practice 149(92) A Tomb of One's Own: The Governor's House, Lahore 151(18) Sylvia Shorto The Other Face of Primitive Accumulation: The Garden House in British Colonial Bengal 169(30) Swati Chattopadhyay The Trouser under the Cloth: Personal Space in Colonial-Modern Ceylon 199(20) Anoma Pieris Negotiated Modernities: Symbolic Terrains of Housing in Delhi 219(22) Jyoti Hosagrahar Notes 241(38) Illustration Credits 279(4) Index 283