Objects, models, and exemplary works: Educating sentiment in colonial India

Article Abstract:

Model Town built near the outskirts of Lahore in the twentieth century shows how their durability is reflected in the choice that Model Town's Indian planners made to adapt a scheme such as Ebenezer Howard's Garden City to their own purposes. The scheme's intellectual roots were foreign but its principles had long been made familiar in colonial India and hence Model Town did not result in the destruction of an Indian way of life and the family and social lives were preserved intact.

History

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Unrolling a narrative scroll: artistic practice and identity in late-nineteenth-century Bengal

Article Abstract:

The article examines an illustrated Ramayana scroll dating from the late 1800s, created by hereditary painters in India's Bengal region. Topics include analysis of the scroll's narrative, depiction of the deities, the art form's visual tradition, and its role in forming regional identity. The article includes several reproduced images of the art.

Criticism and interpretation, Critical Essay, Myths and legends, Bengal, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Book and manuscript illumination

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Making the colonial state work for you: the modern beginnings of the ancient Kumbh Mela in Allahabad

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The article examines how the Allahabad Kumbh Mela was altered to suit India's changing economic and political climate during the mid-1800s, and how conceptualizing it as a religious festival granted participants some relief from a colonial regime that was growing increasingly repressive.

Political aspects, Festivals, Fairs and festivals, Religious aspects, Religious gatherings

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