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Gold – A Colonial Legacy
One of the important developments during the later period of British colonisation of India was the establishment of several large-scale industries across the region. The mandate of profit making was carried out with vigour by the colonial masters duly assisted by the local…
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The mining belt has also been a hotbed of workers' struggle. As the tussle between the government and the BGML employees co-operative continues even today, KGF has come to occupy a unique cultural, economic, social and political place in Karnataka. This film is an attempt to parse some of these…
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The bungalow as a typology bears the timestamp of a past way of life and is a vestige of colonial life and cultural exchange between the natives and the British in Thiruvananthapuram.
In Imperial Conversations, Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai cites the example of ‘a splendid new government house’ in…
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If there is a building type that became emblematic of the British Empire throughout the world it is the bungalow. There are two common tales that relate its origins.
In the first version, the bungalow is essentially a house form, a rudimentary bangla (meaning 'belonging to Bengal’) which is a…
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The bungalow is a versatile architectural typology that became widespread during the British Raj in India. The British bungalow inspired the architecture of the home of affluent natives of the time and continued to do so long after Independence. For much of the 20th century, the common connotation…
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