Abstract :
As India celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence, guest-editor Kazi K Ashraf introduces this special title of AD by holding up a barometer to the nationʹs cultural identity. Can architecture be best understood through a local sense of place or globalisation? What are the driving impulses behind Indiaʹs chaotic urban landscape that is simultaneously messy and utopian? Can Indian culture be best understood as a national entity or through a more elusive subcontinental substance? Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords :
Gurgaon in Delhi , Charka , Hirandani in Mumbai , Adil Jussawalla , Salman Rushdieיs Midnightיs Children , havelis , transnational mobility , Mein Prem Ki Diwani Hoon , The River of Fire , The Husain-Doshi Gufa in Ahemdabad , Bijoy Jain , meta-national matrix , Balkrishna Doshi , secessionist , MF Husain , Rahul Mehrotra , Vritra , Orchard House , Vastupurusa , Samira Rathod , Surendran Nair , Mathew & Ghosh , Auto da fe , Rafiq Azam , 1996 , Adnan Morshed , Prem Chandavarkar , Grameen Bank housing programme , Ramesh Biswas , Ghandiיs ashram , Chandigarh , Nuru Karim , Orhan Pamuk , cultural fluidity
