Gandhinagar
Building National Identity in Postcolonial India
by Ravi Kalia
"Exploring the impact of modernist architecture on India as a whole, Kalia suggests that the style gained acceptance because its parsimonious designs and unadorned spaces never represented a threat to a religiously pluralist country anxious to create a secular identity. He explains how two competing versions of Indian history and ideology - Gandhi's and Jawaharlal Nehru's - employed modernism's ideals for their own separate ends. Serving two masters, as Kalia illustrates, created constrictions and tensions evident in the building of Gandhinagar and in the careers of many Indian architects, including Doshi, Charles Correa, and Achyut Kanvinde."--BOOK JACKET.
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Gandhinagar: Building National Identity in Postcolonial India
August 2004, University of South Carolina Press
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"GUJARAT, CALLED THE melting pot of India and treasure trove of architectural styles, derives its name from Gujjara-ratta, the form the name takes in Prakrit, the old Indic dialect: the Sanskrit term is Gurjjara-rastra-literally, the "country of the Gurjjaras.""
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