Un article dans un journal de Bombay – dont le nom officiel est aujourd’hui Mumbai – attirait rec... more Un article dans un journal de Bombay – dont le nom officiel est aujourd’hui Mumbai – attirait recemment l’attention sur un mouvement de protestation contre le projet de changer le nom d’un rond-point (circle), ce type de changements etant de plus en plus frequents depuis que la ville est dirigee par le Shiv Sena, parti fondamentaliste hindou regional. Un elu municipal de ce parti avait affirme que Khodadad Circle portait le nom d’un dieu « afghan » – ce qui signifie ici « musulman », communau...
The British colonial government received requests for assistance in the establishment of charitab... more The British colonial government received requests for assistance in the establishment of charitable institutions in Bombay in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This chapter underscores the role of the colonial government as protector of the European community in Bombay, in contrast with similar efforts towards native communities (ethnic and religious) in the city. In particular, it demonstrates how a study of Bombay’s charitable institutions provides a deeper understanding of what British colonials deemed as “worthy objects of charity” in western India. It is not simply the dichotomy between colonial engagements with charitable institutions for Europeans and native communities that is of interest. What is unexpected and enlightening is that the government's relationship with the charitable institutions of native religious communities---Parsi, Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish--was not always the same. Based on these varied engagements, this chapter reveals the colonial gover...
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2018
Mary N. Woods Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi London: Routle... more Mary N. Woods Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi London: Routledge, 2017, 236 pp., 115 illus. $155 (cloth), ISBN 9781472475305 In 1936, Perin Jamshetji Mistri (1913–89) was the first woman in India to graduate with a degree in architecture. She went on to work as an architect in her father's office, which, with her inclusion, if not earlier, became a family practice. Eight decades later, female students constitute the majority in many Indian schools of architecture, yet there is still no history of the practice of architecture by women in India. Female Indian architects lack the national and international visibility of their male counterparts, some of whom, such as the eminent architects Charles Correa (1930–2015) and Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (b. 1927), have achieved global prominence. Recently, women architects across the world have begun to receive attention, but only three (two in partnership with male colleagues) have received the Pritzker...
Un article dans un journal de Bombay – dont le nom officiel est aujourd’hui Mumbai – attirait rec... more Un article dans un journal de Bombay – dont le nom officiel est aujourd’hui Mumbai – attirait recemment l’attention sur un mouvement de protestation contre le projet de changer le nom d’un rond-point (circle), ce type de changements etant de plus en plus frequents depuis que la ville est dirigee par le Shiv Sena, parti fondamentaliste hindou regional. Un elu municipal de ce parti avait affirme que Khodadad Circle portait le nom d’un dieu « afghan » – ce qui signifie ici « musulman », communau...
The British colonial government received requests for assistance in the establishment of charitab... more The British colonial government received requests for assistance in the establishment of charitable institutions in Bombay in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This chapter underscores the role of the colonial government as protector of the European community in Bombay, in contrast with similar efforts towards native communities (ethnic and religious) in the city. In particular, it demonstrates how a study of Bombay’s charitable institutions provides a deeper understanding of what British colonials deemed as “worthy objects of charity” in western India. It is not simply the dichotomy between colonial engagements with charitable institutions for Europeans and native communities that is of interest. What is unexpected and enlightening is that the government's relationship with the charitable institutions of native religious communities---Parsi, Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish--was not always the same. Based on these varied engagements, this chapter reveals the colonial gover...
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2018
Mary N. Woods Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi London: Routle... more Mary N. Woods Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi London: Routledge, 2017, 236 pp., 115 illus. $155 (cloth), ISBN 9781472475305 In 1936, Perin Jamshetji Mistri (1913–89) was the first woman in India to graduate with a degree in architecture. She went on to work as an architect in her father's office, which, with her inclusion, if not earlier, became a family practice. Eight decades later, female students constitute the majority in many Indian schools of architecture, yet there is still no history of the practice of architecture by women in India. Female Indian architects lack the national and international visibility of their male counterparts, some of whom, such as the eminent architects Charles Correa (1930–2015) and Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (b. 1927), have achieved global prominence. Recently, women architects across the world have begun to receive attention, but only three (two in partnership with male colleagues) have received the Pritzker...
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