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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87,Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi-110092 _cBW/004838 _d25/06/2018
082			_a720.954 RAJ
100			_aMrinalini Rajagopalan.
245			_aBuilding histories _b : the archival and affective lives of five monuments in modern Delhi. _c/ Mrinalini Rajagopalan.
260			_aChicago ; London _b : The University of Chicago Press _c, [2016].
300			_axv, 244 pages _b : illustrations _c; 27 cm.
365			_b1995
505			_aBuilding Histories" offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi the Red Fort, Rasul Numa dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and Qutb complex tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.?Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective "archival" truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside of the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.
655			_aIslamic architecture _bIndia _b Political aspects
700			_aMrinalini Rajagopalan.
942			_cBOOK
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