(Ebook) Taming the Oriental Bazaar: Architecture of the Market-Halls of Colonial India by Pushkar Sohoni ISBN 9780367487119, 9780367528997, 036748711X, 0367528991

(Ebook) Taming the Oriental Bazaar: Architecture of the Market-Halls of Colonial India by Pushkar Sohoni ISBN 9780367487119, 9780367528997, 036748711X, 0367528991

Taming the Oriental Bazaarexamines the public market hall as a keyarchitectural feature of colonial South Asia. Representing a transition in thearchitectural programme, these buildings were meant to be monuments andmarkers of modernity in South Asia.The book:•Explores how market halls became an essential feature of colonialsettlements from the mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries;•Discusses public health policies and legislations central to the concernsof market hall sanitation; •Reviews the elements of modernity, including institutions and systemsestablished in the nineteenth century as India went from Company toCrown;•Studies the specific circumstances and histories of market halls inthetownsandcitiesofBengaluru,Vadodara,Mumbai,Kolkata,Hyderabad, Karachi, Lahore, Chennai, Pune, and others.A key text in the study of colonial architecture, this book will be of interest tostudents, researchers as well as general readers of architecture, colonialism,history of architecture, history of medicine, public health, urbanism, andSouth Asian studies.Pushkar Sohoniis Associate Professor and Chair of Humanities and SocialSciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER),Pune, India.