British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi

Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early nineteenth-century British India.

List of contents

Knowledge of Delhi: The Eighteenth Century
Hybrid Accommodations: David Ochterlony, the First Residency and the Mubarak Bagh
A lovely Wilderness: Charles Metcalfe and the Garden Houses at Shalimar
Truly Fairy Palaces: Robert Smith in Delhi and in Europe
The World Displayed: William Fraser and his House on the Hill
A Tomb with ViewL Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe's Dilkusha
Dreaming of Home
Bibliography

About the author

Sylvia Shorto

Summary

Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early nineteenth-century British India.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Shorto, Sylvia (Customer Opt-In) Shorto
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781783272082
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-208-2
• No. of pages: 249
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 166 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 568 g
• Illustrations: 9 colour, 11 b/w, 10 line illus.
• Series: Worlds of the East India Company; Worlds of the East India Compa; Worlds of the East India Company; Worlds of the East India Compa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Indischer Subkontinent