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Artisans, Sufis, Shrines: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab

Artisans, Sufis, Shrines: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab

Khan, Hussain Ahmad

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Colonial History

Architecture HistoryIndian & South Asian HistoryRegional Architecture

ISBN10: 178453014X
ISBN13: 9781784530143
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 19 2014
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In nineteenth-century Punjab, a cultural tug-of-war ensued as both Sufi mystics and British officials aimed to engage the local artisans as a means of realizing their ideological ambitions. When it came to influence and impact, the Sufi shrines had a huge advantage over the colonial art institutions, such as the Mayo School of Arts in Lahore. The mystically-inspired shrines, built as a statement of Muslim ruling ambitions, were better suited to the task of appealing to local art traditions. By contrast the colonial institutions, rooted in the Positivist Romanticism of the Victorian West, found assimilation to be more of a challenge. In questioning their relative success and failures at influencing local culture, the book explores the extent to which political control translates into cultural influence. Folktales, Sufi shrines, colonial architecture, institutional education methods and museum exhibitions all provide a wealth of sources for revealing the complex dynamic between the Punjabi artisans, the Sufi community and the colonial British.

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