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Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city--once a prosperous Mughal center that had long since fallen into ruin--was transformed. British and Indian officials had designed a modern, architecturally distinct city center adjacent to the old walled city, administered under new methods of urban governance.   In Making Lahore Modern, William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore. In particular, he focuses on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization came to share: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement. This belief in the power of the physical environment to shape individual and collective sentiments, he argues, links the colonial history of Lahore to nineteenth-century urbanization around the world.   Glover highlights three aspects of Lahore's history that show this process unfolding. First, he examines the concepts through which the British understood the Indian city and envisioned its transformation. Second, through a detailed study of new buildings and the adaptation of existing structures, he explores the role of plannin

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Author

William J. Glover

Publisher

Univ Of Minnesota Press; University of Minnesota Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816653959

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, History, Sociology