Monumental Matters

Santhi Kavuri-Bauer is Associate Professor of Art History at San Francisco State University.

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Breathing New Life into Old Stones: The Poets and Artists of the Mughal Monument in the Eighteenth Century 19 2. From Cunningham to Curzon: Producing the Mughal Monument in the Era of High Imperialism 49 3. Between Fantasy and Phantasmagoria: The Mughal Monument and the Structure of Touristic Desire 76 4. Rebuilding Indian Muslim Space from the Ruins of the Mughal "Moral City" 95 5. Tryst with Destiny: Nehru's and Gandhi's Mighal Monuments 127 6. The Ethics of Monumentality in Postindependence India 145 Epilogue 170 Notes 179 Bibliography 197 Index

"Monumental Matters is a novel and incisive account of the ongoing re-conceptualization of India's Mughal monuments since the colonial era. Santhi Kavuri-Bauer reaches far beyond architectural and art historical scholarship to probe a range of larger political, ideological, and historical processes that have impinged on the modern life of India's monumental spaces. She examines processes ranging from travel, landscape painting, and archaeological surveys in colonial India to state planning, tourism, and the cultural politics of a more recent era." Tapati Guha-Thakurta, author of Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India "Santhi Kavuri-Bauer's Monumental Matters is an original and innovative study that historians, students of architecture and nationalism, and scholars of place and space will seek out and profit from." Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism