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Amiya Jemeemah Hisham
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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Amiya Jemeemah Hisham
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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Amiya Jemeemah Hisham
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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