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HISTORY ASSIGNMENT

QUESTION: THE ATTITUDE OF THE BRITISH TO INDIA ART ANDARCHITECTURAL TRADITION WAS INFLUENCE BY THEIR OWNCONVICTION OF THE SUPERIORITY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.

JUSTIFY THROUGH WORKS OF ENGLISH PAINTERS, WRITERS ANDARCHITECTS WORKING IN INDIA.

SUBMITTED BY: ROOPAK WADHWA

ROLL NO. : 11025006003

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ANSWER:

Colonialismis the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country,

occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

architecture

Britain viewed the people of India as second-class citizens in their own country,

working to build an infrastructure that fed India's natural resources to Englandwhile depriving the indigenous population opportunities to enjoy the fruits of their

labor.4 The Hindustan, under the sway of the British Empire, was despotism complete deprivation of freedom.

Though, the 1850s witnessed the introduction of the three "engines of social

improvement" that heightened the British illusion of permanence in India. They

were the railroads, the telegraph, and the Uniform postal service, but it wasprimarily to serve the British and not for the development of the natives.

The infrastructure in India without the giving of the industrial revolution was

negligible for the British, as mentioned above; the developments were for the

colonizers and not for the ruled, the architectural manifestations also had a colonial

aim of representation. Representation of power, supremacy and yet somewhere,

even in their own dilemma, a way to connect to the masses of the colonized Indians

and symbolize their blatancy of rule.

The architectural undertakings in the colonial empire also just like in their ownnation, politically driven, had different needs to subside to. For instance, the

colonial and India office buildings in white hall, in fact, themselves indicated

something of the distinctive character of empire. Both structures, designed by Scott

and aligned with the Foreign Office, were classical in their architectural form.

British architects who worked in the empire, regardless of their choice, shared a set

of attitudes very different from their colleagues home. Their views together

formed the colonial style, which more or less were inflicted with a concern of

making visible Britains imperial position as ruler. Since, the British thought process

was based on the allegory that, to knowwas, in some measure, already to rule,

hence the imperial architecture wasarchitecture both of knowledge and of

power.

Architecture during British RuleArchitecture during early British rule in India comprised colossal stone and wood structures, erected during the 17thcentury. In the emerging stages, British viceroy-generals likeRobert Clivemanaged huge efforts to build sucharchitectural wonders in the essential port cities of India. Early British architectural design composed of charts and

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outlined plans already erected successfully back in England. This period witnessed the shipping of skilled Britisharchitects and young men, equipped with clever motives to make Indian artistic design much like western modes.Indian educated class or the comparatively poorer class did not possess the amount of talent that their Englishmasters were looking for. As such, architectures were planned by the already utilised British structural wonders.

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